Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the year 1848.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the year 1848. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PHYSICIAN’S ANNUAL REPORT TO TIIE MANAGERS OF THE ROYAL EDINBURGH ASYLUM FOIl THE YEAR 1840, (Bead at the Annual Meetimg of Contributorsf held on the 2i)th January 1840.) 1 have much pleasure in submitting’ to the Managers my report of the history of the Institution during the past year. The results are satisfactory. If the alleviation of suffering and the cure of dise is3 are the great ends for which the Asylum was founded, these objects have been attained to an extent which must be gratifying to every benevolent mind. 'Notwithstanding the additional accommodation acquired in General results, the early part of 1847, and the increase since that time of the average number of inmates from 409 to 491, the Houso con¬ tinues to be always full, and I have been reluctantly compelled to refuse admittance to a large number of patients. Vet the number admitted has been great, amounting to 246 making, with those who remained in the house at the close f toe pre¬ vious year, 712 individuals who have enjoyed the advantages which the Institution affords. The general results of the year are here thrown into a tabular form : li