Eightieth annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 18th June, 1900 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Eightieth annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 18th June, 1900 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Committee of Management to consider the whole question of the Rates charged for Pauper Patients, and report to another meeting of the Directors. The Committee of Management accordingly, having carefully considered a Memorandum prepared by the Treasurer as to the Cost of Maintenance of Pauper Patients for 1898-9, were of opinion that the Rate of Board for Pauper Patients should be increased by l/9d. per Patient per week, and resolved to recommend accordingly. At a Special Meeting of the Directors, held on 14th November last, this recommendation of the Committee of Management was unanimously approved of, and the Directors remitted to the Committee of Management to take the necessary steps for carrying the resolution into effect. Notice was accordingly given on 15th November last to the Dundee Lunacy District Board that the Rate of Board charged for Pauper Patients from that District would he raised from ll/9d. to 13/6d. per week, and to the Forfar Lunacy District Board that the Rate of Board charged for Pauper Patients from that District would he raised from 11/- to 12/9d. per week, three months from the date of the said Notice. Both the Dundee Lunacy District Board and the Forfar Lunacy District Board having declined to accede to the proposed increase, the matter was referred in January last to the General Board of Lunacy for decision in terms of the Contracts. The General Board, having heard parties on the 16th of February last, intimated their decision on the 30th of April that 12/6d. per week should be the Rate chargeable for all Pauper Patients, whether belonging to the Forfar Lunacy District or the Dundee Lunacy District, and that as from and after 15th February last. That rate is now in force. The General Board of Lunacy also intimated on the 21st of March last that the recent division of the former Forfar Lunacy District necessitated new Contracts for the accommodation of Pauper Patients being entered into, and that they had resolved that the existing Contracts shall terminate twelve months after the date of this intimation. At the Quarterly Court of the Directors, held on 16th April last, it was remitted to the Committee of Management, along with Ex-Lord