Área de identidad
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Título
Fecha(s)
- 1835-1850 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
2 items
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia administrativa
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.
Institución archivística
Historia archivística
Unknown.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Purchased from De Búrca Rare Books jointly by University of Limerick's Graduate School of Medicine and Department of History on 11 February 2010.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
This small collection provides valuable information about the founding of the establishment and its subscribing members, ethos, funding and finances primarily between 1835 and 1848. It also contains statistical information about the parish and the volume of patients treated, and provides insights into which leading local families contributed or did not contribute to the funding of the Dispensary. It should be noted that the documents are purely of administrative nature and contain no names of individual patients or the nature of ailments and illnesses treated at the Dispensary.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
All records have been retained.
Acumulaciones
No accruals are expected.
Sistema de arreglo
Documents have been arranged chronologically by date.
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Unrestricted access to all items.
Condiciones
Standard copyright regulations apply to all items. For photocopying or reproducing material, please consult with the staff.
Idioma del material
- inglés
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Paper documents in reasonable condition.
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Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.7b9b-se84.
The National Library of Ireland holds a copy of P26/1 in location N.6361, P.7363. A record of the copy can be found at http://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_080721.
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Reglas y/o convenciones usadas
This description follows guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd edition (2000), Irish Guidelines for Archival Description (2009), National Council on Archives: Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names (1997) and EAP Guidance on Data Protection for Archive Services (2018).
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Nota del archivista
Papers arranged and described by Anna-Maria Hajba in September 2022.