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Arthur Rannie was House Surgeon to Morpeth Dispensary, but only stayed four months.
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Arthur Rannie was House Surgeon to Morpeth Dispensary, but only stayed four months.
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Morpeth Dispensary was a free local health service for poor people. It was founded in 1817, 130 years before the NHS.
The first notice we have of Thomas William Gibson is in the 1841 census. He was then 13 and living with his widowed father at the Dispensary, Oldgate, where Mr Gibson was the Apothecary.
Morpeth Dispensary was founded in 1817 to give medical treatment free of charge to the sick poor. In its early days, the Dispensary doctor was known as the apothecary, but later as the house surgeon.