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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    Establishment. Tlie Directors have much pleasure in adding their favourable testimony to that of the Sheriff. The order and regularity, the peace and harmony by which the establish' ment has always been happily distinguished hitherto, have con¬ tinued to reign throughout. And the servants, among whom are two old patients, have given every satisfaction to the Super¬ intendent and Matron. Several improvements and repairs have been made, and others are projected, which will contribute much to the advantage of the patients, and to the comfort and security of the Establish- ment. A spring-board has been introduced by the Chairman, from the use of which the female patients have derived benefit. As regards the house itself, several rooms have been papered and furnished. New pumps, boilers, and cisterns, * have been procured to replace the old, which had become worn out. The new well has given entire satisfaction. It furnishes an abundant supply of water to every part of the house ; and as soon as the Funds will permit, the Directors purpose to convey this needful element from it by pipes into all the airing courts, so that, in the event of fire, the means of extinguishing it may be every where found at hand, and the delay and danger avoided which might be incurred by having possibly to feed the engine with water carried from a distance, at a time when every thing depends on promptitude and dispatch. It is highly desirable, also, that gas be introduced as. soon as practicable into all those day-rooms and galleries which have not been supplied with this i cheerful light. The Directors have for the last two or three years had their ; attention directed to the dangerous state of the laundry and t wash-house. In order to security against fire, to give more scope to the Matron in the employment of the female patients, and to prevent injury to their health, they have had under their consi- :! deration the propriety of ordering a new laundry and rrash-house ij to be built on the vacant space of ground in the garden on the least wall, to communicate from the airing court, Such an