Minute Book No.16

Signed minutes of monthly and Annual General Meetings of Board of Directors, which contain minutes of meetings of Committees including Finance, House, Farm, Works, Motor Vehicles, Stables and Garage, and Gardens. Also included in volume are lists of staff in the works, stores, stables and garages departments getting an increase in weekly wages from June 1919 and Standing Orders of the Board of Direction, 1920. At the rear of the volume there is a draft scheme for suggested Conciliation Committees and Arbitration Board for Managers and Staffs of Scottish Royal Asylums; a report of inspection of Service Patients in Crichton Royal Institution by the Ministry of Pensions, 1921; a report from the Firemaster of Edinburgh on fire extinguishing arrangements at the Institution; and a report by Sir George Watt, Convenor of the Gardens Committee, on the position of a scheme for alterations of garden arrangements. Volume indexed at front.

1919-1921

1 volume

A new class of patient, the Service Patient, was established during the First World War after an agreement was made with the War Office to admit these patients at a fixed rate of board into the Third Department of Crichton Royal Institution, with their board being paid by the Ministry of Pensions. These patients were Soldiers and Sailors who had served during the First World War and had been admitted to an asylum due to mental illness caused or aggravated by their period of service. This scheme was later extended to Officers, with the Ministry of Pensions paying a higher fixed rate of board for their admission into the First Department of the Hospital. Patients continued to be classified as Service Patients during the interwar years and the Second World War.

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