Twenty-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, 19th June, 1848 with the report of the medical officers.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
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1848
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Credit: Twenty-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, 19th June, 1848 with the report of the medical officers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT THE DIEECTORS OF iflji' Diutiitt 111 n i{ ii l SUujItun for iL'minth'a, FOR THE YEAR ENDING 21st JUNE, 1848, The Directors, in laying before their constituents in this their Twenty-eighth Annual Report, an account of the transactions of the past year, recur with pleasure to the great and continued usefulness of this benevolent and invaluable Institution. While they feel it unnecessary to speak otherwise than generally of the excellent management of the Establishment, and the skilful treatment of the patients, so well and fully known, they desire particularly to acknowledge the benefits which, under the Divine blessing, this Institution is the means of supplying to its inmates. As this year presents little that is new, either as regards the character of resources or expenditure, the Directors have thus but few incidents to supply, and but little matter for discussion or remark to furnish. In reporting, then, on the important trust committed to them, they would first point to the state of the funds, which the Trea¬ surer’s abstract fully sets forth. In a general way, it may be stated that it presents an excess of receipts for the year of ^151 19s. This result, though not large, is nevertheless grati- fying, because many circumstances have concurred to make the expenditure greater than in former years; and it is also en¬ couraging, as giving good promise of the permanent prosperity of the Asylum, seeing the Directors have received no legacies or donations during the past year, while, from the rise in the