Rules and Regulations

Sets of Rules for Crichton Royal Institution which outline the required qualifications, duties and responsibilities of the Board of Direction and staff members.

1880

1 folder

The first Rules and Regulations were issued in 1839 and then at various intervals as decided by the Board of Direction. Only two sets appear as loose items within the collection, with the others being located in bound volumes of legislation, Annual Reports and C. R. I. Scrapbook. The other Rules and Regulations include, Regulations of the Crichton Institution, 1839; Regulations for Attendants at Crichton Institution, 1854; Rules and Regulations in Dr J. Gilchrist's notebook, 1858-1879; Rules and Regulations of Crichton Royal Institution, 1873; Rules and Regulations of Southern Counties Asylum, 1873; List of Rules and Regulations of the Crichton Royal Institution for Attendants and Night Attendants, 1873; and General Rules of the Crichton Institution - Rules for Board Members and Staff, 1880; Instructions on Keeping case books at Crichton Royal 1 April, 1897.

Other sets of rules and regulations can be found in the following: Lunacy Acts (Scotland), DGH1/2/6/2; Crichton Royal Institution Acts of Parliament, DGH1/2/6/3; Annual Reports 1st-8th, DGH1/2/2/2/2; C. R. I. Scrapbook, DGH1/6/17/, pages 44, 45, 50 and 51.

Enquiries for reproduction for commercial purposes should be directed to the Archivist, Dumfries and Galloway Archives and Local Studies

The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.