Report by the managers of the Royal Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum for the year 1844, presented to the annual general meeting, held on Monday, 27th January, 1845.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum.
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[1845?]
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Credit: Report by the managers of the Royal Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum for the year 1844, presented to the annual general meeting, held on Monday, 27th January, 1845. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT BY THE MANAGERS of the ROYAL EDINBURGH LUNATIC ASYLUM for the Year 1844, presented to the Annual General Meeting, held on Monday, 27th January 1845. In submitting1 their Report on the Asylum for'1844, the Managers have much pleasure in being enabled to congratu¬ late the public on its rapid advance during the last four years, and on the distinguished position to which it has now attained among institutions of a similar kind. At the close of 1840 the total number of inmates was 39— at the present date it is 367. Again, its ordinary income for the year 1840 was £2,224: 18 : 11, and that for the year 1844 was £7,364 : 4 : 7. Stimulated by a deep sense of the growing wants of society, and encouraged by the liberal contributions obtained through the zealous efforts of their late treasurer Mr William Scott, the Managers, in 1840, commenced the erection of the extensive department for inmates of the poorer class, which has now been completed at an expense of £36,000. When this mea¬ sure was first proposed, the funds at their disposal did not much exceed £10,000; but since that time thej have obtained, in subscriptions and legacies, nearly £15,000 more, leaving a debt of about £11,700, which they have not hesitated to incur, rather than leave the work imperfect. Of this large expendi¬ ture about 300 is for raising a supply of water which has born*