Twelfth annual report of the directors and physician of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics. 1839.

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Twelfth annual report of the directors and physician of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics. 1839. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. Murray, the Founder, had entirely confided the management of the Institution. His much respected colleague, Mr. Peddie, was removed by death in the year 1826, before the Constitu¬ tion of the Asylum was adjusted. Mr. Beatson being then deprived of the able concurrence and advice of Mr. Peddie, felt that his responsibili¬ ties were increased, but he brought increased vigilance and attention to the discharge of his duty, and, after taking advice of the most emi¬ nent lawyers of the day, he framed and execut¬ ed the Deed of Fundamental Regulations which formed the ground-work of the Royal Charter under which the Asylum is now incorporated. Under that Charter the first meeting of Direc¬ tors was assembled on the 28th of May, 1827, when Mr. Beatson surrendered into their hands the trust which he had previously so worthily discharged. He then laid before the Directors the whole Accounts and a State of the Funds belonging to the Institution, and gave them a minute history of the origin and progress of the Trust from the time of its foundation to that period. The Directors, it is almost unnecessary to say, were so highly satisfied with the manner in which every thing had been conducted, that it was moved and unanimously carried that, as a mark of respect and approbation, a Tablet of Marble should be placed on a conspicuous part