Minute Book No.17

Signed minutes of monthly and Annual General Meetings of Board of Directors, which contain minutes of meetings of Committees including Finance, House, Farm, Works, Stables and Garage, and Gardens. At the rear of the volume there is a report of inspection of Service Patients in Crichton Royal Institution by the Ministry of Pensions, 1923; minute of meeting of the six Royal Asylums held in Edinburgh, November 1923; Memorandum regarding stamping of National Insurance cards, November 1923; Annual Report of the Local Central Committee of Dumfries Burgh and Savings Association, 1922-23; report by the Convener of Gardens Committee, Sir George Watt, on the recent garden works, December 1923; and report by the Convener of Finance Committee on pensions. Volume indexed at front.

1922-1924

1 volume

A new class of patient, the Service Patient, was established during the First World War after an agreement was made with the War Office to admit these patients at a fixed rate of board into the Third Department of Crichton Royal Institution, with their board being paid by the Ministry of Pensions. These patients were Soldiers and Sailors who had served during the First World War and had been admitted to an asylum due to mental illness caused or aggravated by their period of service. This scheme was later extended to Officers, with the Ministry of Pensions paying a higher fixed rate of board for their admission into the First Department of the Hospital. Patients continued to be classified as Service Patients during the interwar years and the Second World War.

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