List of public dispensaries

A public dispensary provides "outpatient medical treatment and advice to patients, in contrast to the inpatient service provided by hospitals". Examples include:

Australia

• Sydney Dispensary, Australia, founded 1826

Canada

• Toronto Western Hospital, Canada, founded as a public dispensary in 1895

India

• Guru Nanak Charitable Dispensary, Chakala, Mumbai
• Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Kanpur
• Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Purulia

United Kingdom

London

• The Foundery free dispensary in Moorfields, was opened by Methodist preacher John Wesley in 1746
• Finsbury Dispensary, London, founded 1780
• St. Mary's Dispensary for Women, London, founded 1866
• Surrey Dispensary, founded 1777
• Warwick Lane dispensary, London 1688–1725
• St. Martin's Lane dispensary
• General Dispensary, Aldersgate Street

Elsewhere in England

• Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary, Manchester, England. Founded in 1828 and managed under the auspices of the Provident Dispernsary Association from 1875
• Hereford Dispensary, Hereford, England. Founded in 1835.

Elsewhere in the U.K.

• Edinburgh Provident Dispensary for Women and Children, Scotland, founded 1878
• Public Dispensary of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded 1776 (received royal charter in 1818 to become Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh)

United States

• Boston Dispensary
• Baltimore General Dispensary
• Evening Dispensary For Working Women and Girls, Baltimore

Other countries

• Dispensary for Chinese at Macau, founded in 1820 by the Scottish missionary Robert Morrison and John Livingstone, a surgeon with the East India Company

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