History of the York dispensary: : containing an account of its origin and progress to the present time; comprising a period of fifty-seven years. / By Oswald Allen.

  • Allen, Oswald, of York.
Date:
1845
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Credit: History of the York dispensary: : containing an account of its origin and progress to the present time; comprising a period of fifty-seven years. / By Oswald Allen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thus the Charity was deprived by death, in the same month, of its Treasurer and Apothecary: both having discharged their respective duties with credit to them- selves, in a manner highly satisfactory to the Directors of the Dispensary, and with benefit to the Institution. Having myself been so connected with the Institution from its commencement, I can bear testimony to the humane and diligent attention, which my predecessor paid to the sick poor, during the wThole time he was spared to discharge his duties; and I have no doubt the labour and anxiety he experienced in the discharge of those duties greatly contributed to shorten his days. In consequence of the decease of the Treasurer and the Apothecary; a general meeting of the Directors was held at the Merchants’ Hall in Fossgate, June 5th, 1789, when it was unanimously resolved— 4 That Mr. Edward Prest be appointed a Director and Trea- surer to this Institution, in the room of the late Mr. John Wright: and that Mr. Oswald Allen, the assistant of the late Mr. Francis Whaley, be requested to perform the duty of Apothecary to this Institution, until the 17th day of August next; on which day at twelve o’clock, the Directors are desired to meet, for the purpose of electing an Apothe- cary in the room of Mr. Francis Whaley, deceased.1 At a numerous meeting of the Directors of the York Dispensary, held on Monday, August 17th, 1789, (Mr. Alderman Wilson in the Chair) it was unanimously resolved— * That Mr. Oswald Allen, of this City, be the Apothecary
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