Forty-eighth 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, 15th June, 1868 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Forty-eighth 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, 15th June, 1868 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EEPOET BY THE DIEECTOES OF THE ifratk TO THE ANNUAL GENERAL COURT, JUNE, 1868. The Directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum are glad to be able to report that its condition in every respect is on the whole satisfactory. A considerable improvement has been made during the year in its financial state. At last balance in March, 1867, there was a deficiency of Income to the extent of c^310 13s. 6d., in addition to which there were large unsettled claims for Poor's Rates and Police Tax, which, if a change in the law regarding such matters cannot be effected, will remain a permanent burden on the Asylum. As the large expenditure caused by the high price of provisions, and by the removal of the quiet and least costly patients to the Poor House, still continues, the Directors felt themselves under the necessity of making arrangements whereby the accumulation of debt might be prevented. They would have been delighted if this could have been attained by stringent economy and the most limited expenditure, consistent with the prosperity of the Asylum and the comfort and recovery of the patients. And with this view they caused a most rigorous in¬ vestigation to be made into every department of charge. Every