The facts bearing on the claim of the poor to 1. The Poorhouse grounds and buildings; 2. Paul's work mortification; and 3. Trinity Hospital : and dissent from the report of the Law Committee of the Council refusing the poor's claims / by Councillor Curror.

  • Edinburgh (Scotland). Parochial Board.
Date:
1862
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Credit: The facts bearing on the claim of the poor to 1. The Poorhouse grounds and buildings; 2. Paul's work mortification; and 3. Trinity Hospital : and dissent from the report of the Law Committee of the Council refusing the poor's claims / by Councillor Curror. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    sums of money, and the present charity workhouse or poor- house, and other buildings, were erected on the ground so given, granted, and appropriated; and from the date of it, the poor have been maintained therein— under the charge of the charity managers till 1843—of the Corporation from 1843 to 1845—and of the Poor’s Board thereafter. In 1801, the workhouse managers suggested to the Council, with the view of benefiting the charity, to feu out the poor’s grounds. In 1819, they revived the suggestion, and in a representation to the Council, proposed that Bedlam, the hospital, and children’s house (the present east division of the poorhouse), should be taken down, “and the ground feued by public roup, for the purpose of building—the charters to purchasers to be granted by the Magistrates, with concur- rence of the managers, to be holden off the city, and the feu- duties and casualties to be taken payable to the treasurer of the charity workhouse, for behoof of the poor of the city ” employed and maintained in the workhouse. It was part of the proposal that the pauper lunatics were to be removed from the grounds—a new children’s hospital erected—a corner of the ground sold to widen Teviot Bow—and the price thereof, and of the old material, applied “ to the erection of the new building, or otherwise disposed of for the benefit of the” charity. The representation having been sent to the Lord Provost’s committee of that day, that committee reported “ their opinion that the plan proposed ought to be gone into, and that if the feu-duties are taken payable to the governors of the charity, the casualties of superiority, which will of course be taxed, should be reserved to the town, the superiors and on 17th February 1819, the Coimcil approved of that report. On 29th August 1833, the “Act to appoint Trustees for the Creditors of the City of Edinburgh” was passed. On 19th July 1836, the charity managers again moved for the removal of Bedlam and children’s hospital to a more suitable locality, and approved of “the proposal for disposing of the present site of the buildings, for the purpose of raising funds to enable the managers to carry into effect this important public object;”