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

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum.
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    REPORT BY THE ORDINARY MANAGERS V , - ■ OF THE ROYAL EDINBURGH ASYLUM FOR THE YEAR 1848. Presented to the General Meeting held on Monday th* 29th January, 1849. It again becomes the duty of the Managers to present their Annua) Report on the affairs of the important Institution under their care. The Asylum during the past year has remained in much the same state as at the period of last Report. The ave¬ rage number of Patients during the year 1847 was 444; that of the year just ended has been 491, being an increase over the previous year of 47 Patients. The amount of ordinary receipts by the Treasurer during the past year has been £12,816 : 13 : 6, and of his ordinary disbursements, and accounts still due, £12,537 : 0 : 3, shewing a surplus income of £279 : 13 : 3. The Western or Pauper Department of the Institution, although so recently enlarged, is again quite full, or rather crowded; and the Managers are without the means of extending these Build¬ ings, so as to provide accommodation for the numerous appli¬ cants for admission. Referring to this subject, and to the great amount of debt on the Institution, the Managers, shortly after the date of last Report, considered it to he their duty to submit Jk