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.
Date:
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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    r lithe Quarterly Court in October to a Committee, who, after close ^examination into the matter, determined to pay the contractor for butcher meat £20, and the contractor for bread £o additional, which sums were thankfully received. The Directors had their time also engaged in trying to prevent ; au additional tax for window lights being imposed. They corre¬ sponded with Mr Duncan, M.P., on the subject; and he, with ehis uniform attention to all applications made to him, imme- hdiately waited on the Lords of the Treasury and corresponded with them, but without effect, for, instead of £2 12s 3d per < :annum, there is now paid a sum of 3019 16s 9d for this tax. The Directors have had under their consideration the propriety of erecting a new coal house, and additional conveniences in two of the male airing courts. Tradesmen have examined into these If matters, and given in estimates for the erection of the works, band it is hoped they will soon be proceeded with. The influx of patients has been principally on the female side of the House. * From this part of the buildings being still un- ihnished, the Directors have been compelled to refuse admission l to 32 females, in addition to 20 males, or 52 in all. The House : is still crowded with female patients, several of whom are not r[ supplied with suitable accommodation. The Directors, through their Chairman, have had frequent it communications with the Water Company for supplying the iwhole or part of the Asylum; and having ascertained that the 8 cost of partially introducing the water will be comparatively greater than if it were wholly taken in, they have made an offer to the Company for a complete supply, which they trust will be > accepted. | A plan of the drains having been prepared by the Chairman, Ithe Directors offered their best thanks for his attention to the imatter, and requested that the plan might be lithographed, that :isuch valuable information should not be lost. The great rise in fthe price of potatoes has prevented the Directors allowing the