History
It was founded in 1810 as a non-provident subscription dispensary to provide medical assistance to the deserving poor (F. Peter Woodford, ‘Provident and Non-Provident Dispensaries in Camden,’ Camden History Review, vol. 25, 2001)
Its physicians included Peter Roget, and his uncle Sir Samuel Romilly was one of the subscribers (F. Peter Woodford, ‘Provident and Non-Provident Dispensaries in Camden,’ Camden History Review, vol. 25, 2001)
By the 1840s it had become partly provident (Thomas Dale, The Metropolitan Charities: Being an Account of the Charitable, Benevolent, and Religious Societies...in London and its Immediate Vicinity, 1844), thus allowing working-class members to make contributions when they could afford it and draw on medical services such as midwifery and home visits when needed
It apparently treated 7390 patients in 1869 (F. Peter Woodford, ‘Provident and Non-Provident Dispensaries in Camden,’ Camden History Review, vol. 25, 2001)
It was still operating in 1912, when it took the lease on new premises at 39 Oakley Square, about a mile north of Bloomsbury, as a specialist tuberculosis dispensary (The Times, 13 March 1912); it is not clear whether the Euston Road premises were still maintained at the time
It no longer exists
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What was reforming about it?
It was one of many such dispensaries founded at least partly out of altruism to provide medical assistance to the local deserving poor
Where in Bloomsbury
It remained at this location for decades; by the 1860s this address had become known as 126 Euston Road, and the Dispensary was still here in 1907, according to the Charities Digest of that year, and still in 1910, when it was listed in the BMJ at the same address
This means that it was not displaced when the New Hospital for Women moved to its Euston Road site in the 1890s, as Woodford suggests (F. Peter Woodford, ‘Provident and Non-Provident Dispensaries in Camden,’ Camden History Review, vol. 25, 2001)
However, it may have had to move due to the subsequent expansion of this Hospital, perhaps when the Queen Mary wing was added in the 1920s, and the Hospital itself later adopted the address of 126 Euston Road (having begun as no. 144 Euston Road)
Website of current institution
It no longer exists
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Books about it
F. Peter Woodford, ‘Provident and Non-Provident Dispensaries in Camden,’ Camden History Review, vol. 25 (2001)
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