Other home medical missions
The impact of home medical missions like the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society cannot be underestimated; its services filled gaps in the existing poor law through the delivery of easily accessible and good quality medical care as well as welfare provision by home visitation. Once EMMS was established, its success sparked a wave of new medical missions such as in Glasgow (1844), Belfast and Liverpool (both 1863). At the first meeting of the Medical Missionary Association in London, it was acknowledged EMMS was their key influence. In 1888 the St. Pancras Medical Mission was founded along similar lines as the Cowgate Dispensary, as was the Islington Medical Mission in 1890, and the the Mildmay Mission Hospital in Hackney Road, which opened in 1892.
