Report on the Royal Lunatic Asylum of Montrose for 1865 : instituted 1782.

  • Royal Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary, and Dispensary of Montrose.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Report on the Royal Lunatic Asylum of Montrose for 1865 : instituted 1782. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ROYAL LUNATIC ASYLUM. REPORT OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE. The chief point the Committee have this year to bring under the notice of the Board, is the great decrease in the number of patients since last report. At the beginning of the year, the number of patients was 489, and it is now 421 only, showing a decrease on the year of 68. The decrease-was forseen, and is owing to the transfer of patients to newly opened Asylums and Lunacy Wards in connection with their own districts. A further withdrawal of patients is immedi¬ ately expected, in consequence of the opening of the Dundee Poors' House Lunacy Wards, and at a later period from the opening of the Fifeshire District Asylum. The patients are at present distributed as follows, viz.:— 361 at Sunnyside, 60 in Montrose. 421 The engagement with Dr. Fairless having terminated, there is now no resident Medical Officer in the Old House, nor in the present state and prospects of the House, is it proposed to make any new appointment. It has been arranged that Dr. ILowden will see all the inmates daily ; and as with reference to this arrangement, a careful selection of the patients to be left in the House has been made; and as they are comparatively few in number, with the prospect of being immediately still farther reduced, it is expected that this arrangement will prove satisfactory and sufficient for the purpose. In case of