Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1835-1850 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
2 items
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Histoire administrative
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.
Histoire archivistique
Unknown.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Purchased from De Búrca Rare Books jointly by University of Limerick's Graduate School of Medicine and Department of History on 11 February 2010.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
All records have been retained.
Accruals
No accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
Documents have been arranged chronologically by date.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Unrestricted access to all items.
Conditions governing reproduction
Standard copyright regulations apply to all items. For photocopying or reproducing material, please consult with the staff.
Language of material
- anglais
Script of material
Language and script notes
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Paper documents in reasonable condition.
Finding aids
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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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Rules and/or conventions used
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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Archivist's note
Papers arranged and described by Anna-Maria Hajba in September 2022.