Report respecting the lunatic asylum of Edinburgh for the year 1818.

Date:
[1819?]
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Credit: Report respecting the lunatic asylum of Edinburgh for the year 1818. 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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    REPORT RESPECTING THE LUNATIC ASYLUM OF EDINBURGH, FOR THE YEAR 1818. Presented by the Managers to the General Meet- ing of Contributors, held on the last Monday of January, in terms of the Royal Charter, Monday, 25th January 1819- Sir William Fettes, Bart, in the Chair. Since the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum was open- ed for the reception of Patients in the year 1813, there have been admitted into it seventy-four un- fortunate individuals ; of these, thirty-two have been dismissed, either completely recovered from the mental affliction, to which they were subject- ed at the time of admission, or in such a state of re-convalescence, as to render confinement no longer