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- [c. 1835-1841] (Creation)
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The Cratloe and Meelick Dispensary was formed on 6 January 1835 to provide healthcare for the underprivileged in East Clare within the Limerick poor-law union. The Dispensary’s work was supported partly through private subscriptions and partly through public funding. Surgeon Thomas Kane of Cecil Street, Limerick acted as the medical attendant. Initially, treatment was provided free of charge to patients in receipt of vouchers distributed by subscribers. However, the voucher system was vulnerable to abuse and from 1840 onwards a small fee was charged from all except the most destitute. The Dispensary remained active throughout the famine years, but by 1850 struggled to find funding. Its subsequent fate is unknown.
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Recommendation slip distributed by subscribing members to patients deemed deserving of free medical care at the Dispensary. Written on the back of the voucher are the size in acres of the parish of Cratloe, its population in 1841 and a list of the names of those landed proprietors whose annual income exceeded £500 but who did not subscribe to the Dispensary.
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Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.q94a-3t50.