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Fort Street Hospital: Source G

Ticket to admit one patient to the outpatient ward of the Fort Street Hospital, 1862-1863

“This TICKET should be issued between the 1st July, 1862, and the 31st of July, 1863, and is available for Two Months only at the Dispensary.

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I recommend………………………. residing in …………………………………………. as a Proper Object to receive Relief as an Out-patient from the “Isle of Man General Hospital and Dispensary

…………………………………………………………Subscriber

The following are Proper Objects of Relief:

1st.- All Paupers receiving weekly allowance from one of the Charities of the Town.

2nd.-All Labourers and their Families

3rd.- All Servants out of Place

4th.- Tradesmen and their Families, when in such destitute circumstances as to require Relief from other sources.

No Person can be admitted who belongs to a Club, and who receives an Allowance from it.

NO SERVANT, WHEN TAKEN ILL IN A SITUATION, CAN BE ADMITTED

No Patient can be Admitted without a Printed Ticket of Recommendation.  

DISPENSARY open every day (except Sunday), from 9 o’clock till 11 o’clock.”

Questions to consider:

  1. How could patients get free treatment at the Fort Street hospital?
  2. What is meant by a ‘Proper Object to receive Relief’?
  3. Does the list of ‘Proper Objects’ surprise you? Why or why not?
  4. Why do you think this system was used at the Fort Street hospital?
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