Patient Accounts and Receipts

Documents comprise fourteen accounts for the quarterly payment of board for a female patient in Southern Counties Asylum by her Obligant. Accounts are signed by Crichton Royal Institution Treasurers, Samuel Adamson, John Symons and James Carmont, and show the annual rate of board and the name of the Obligant. Also included are twelve receipts for furnishings, clothing and shoes supplied to the patient by local businesses.

1878-1885

26 documents

Case notes relating to this patient can be found in Southern Counties Asylum Case Book vol. 11, p.59, DGH1/5/21/2/11 and Case Book Females 1885, vol. 1, p.387, DGH1/5/21/4/1

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.

Purchased by former Health Board Archivist from Thomson, Roddick and Medcalf, Auctioneers and Vaulers, on 6 December 2000 as part of a lot containg other material relating to Dumfries, for £42.75.