Twenty-third 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, 19th June, 1843.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Twenty-third 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, 19th June, 1843. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPOBT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE DUNDEE ROYAL ASYLUM FOR LUNATICS, For the Year ending 19th June 1843. The benevolent design of this valuable Institution, the princi¬ ples on which the treatment of the patients is conducted, and the general management of the establishment, have all been so fully explained to the public in former Reports, that it may be deemed unnecessary at present to advert to them; and the Directors, therefore, will confine this, their Twenty-third Annual Report, to a simple record of the transactions of the past year. In giving to their constituents an account of the manner in which they have discharged the important trust committed to j them, the Directors would ad\'ert, in the first instance, to the i state of the Funds. An abstract account of these will be found f appended to the Report, containing a statement of income, ex¬ penditure, and surplus, from which it will be seen that, as in i former years, the revenue very considerably exceeds the outlay, > the excess being no less than L.576. The debt, amounting to L.9730, still hangs as a heavy burden on the Institution. But i it is gratifying to have to record that the state of the funds is so satisfactory, notwithstanding, and that no difficulties have arisen from this source to cramp the usefulness of the establish-