Seventieth 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, 16th June, 1890 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Seventieth 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, 16th June, 1890 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT BY THE DIRECTORS OF THE DUNDEE ROYAL LUNATIC ASYLUM T6 THE ANNUAL GENERAL COURT, JUKE 1 89 0. Ik submitting their Seventieth Annual Report, the Directors are glad to be able to state that the affairs of the Institution under their charge are in a more favourable position than they have been for some years past. At the Annual Court in June last, Sir John Ogilvy retired from the Chairmanship, an office which he had held since 1876, and in the Minute of Meeting the Directors expressed their regret at the loss which the Institution had sustained by his retirement. At the Quarterly Court held in April, the Directors recorded in their Minutes an expression of their deep regret which the Institution has sustained by the death of Sir John Ogilvy, who had been a Director for upwards of fifty years. Sir John was first elected a Director from the County of Forfar in 1839. Appointed a Life Director in 1845, he was repeatedly a Member of the Committee of Management; and from 1876, until his retirement in June last, he was Chairman of the Board. During the long period of Sir John’s connection