This assisted those on low incomes to obtain treatment and medicines by means of a weekly subscription.

In January 1877 it was announced that the premises were to be the permanent home of the dispensary, and were opened as the Boscombe, Pokesdown, and Springbourne Infirmary, with accommodation for twelve patients.

[4] The first named Royal Victoria Hospital of the two was at 17 Poole Road, Westbourne.

[5][6] Comedian and actor Tony Hancock's father died of cancer at the Royal Victoria Hospital (Boscombe site) in 1935.

[7] Sixteen of the original W. B. Simpson tile panels from the Boscombe site can be found mounted on the stairs of the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.