Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year ending 31st December 1865.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum.
Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year ending 31st December 1865. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The amount of the Ordinary Income of the Corporation during the past year was.£21,563 19 2 And the Ordinary Expenditure, including Statu¬ tory Payment to the Sinking Fund,. 20,746 1 6^ Surplus Revenue,... £817 17 From which, however, falls to be deducted a de¬ crease in the value of the Stock on hand at the close of the year, amounting to. 191 4 8 Net Surplus,. £626 12 11^ The Receipts from Patients Boards during the past year amounted to......£20,773 6 5 While during the year 1864 they were. 21,078 16 9 Shewing a falling off of.£305 10 4 This falling off in the cumulo amount of Boards is attributed; partly to a slight diminution in the average number of Patients! paying the higher rates of Board, and partly to the reduction off L.2 per bead in the rate of Board of Pauper Patients from locali¬ ties beyond the Metropolitan Lunacy District. Of these there are;; 82 in the Asylum ; and as the reduced Boards came into operation, in the second quarter of the year, about L.120 of the falling off isji accounted for under this head. The expenditure in provisions, furnishings, bedding, fuel, wages,j* and salaries, during the past year, after allowing for the decrease- in the quantity of the Stock in hand at the commencement of the year, and for the difference in the number of Patients, is very much as it was during the previous year. The Surplus Revenue arising during the past year has been wholly applied in the reduction of the floating balance due to the Bank, which has been reduced from L.2550 7s. 10Jd., as at 31 si December, 1864, to L.1803 8s. 6d., at 31st December, 1865, being a diminution of L.746 19s. 4Jd. Through the operation of the Sinking Fund, the Statutory Deb; has also been reduced during the past year to the extent of L.750