Twenty-sixth annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 15th June, 1846 with the report of the medical officers.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Twenty-sixth annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 15th June, 1846 with the report of the medical officers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXTRACT From Act of Parliament 55 Geo. III., cap. 69, anent Mad Houses in Scotland. And, if any medical person shall sign or give any such certificate, or report, without having carefully visited and examined the person to whom it relates, and without having endeavoured to ascertain, in a proper manner, by such exa- mination, and otherwise, that such person is a furious or fatuous person or lunatic, and proper to be confined in a house for the reception of such persons, every such medical person shall forfeit and pay for such offence or neglect, the sum of Fifty Pounds, and the expenses of recovering the same. TERMS OF ADMISSION. The following is the present rate of board—subject, however, to such altera¬ tions as the Directors shall judge proper, and which must necessarily vary according to the state of the funds and the expenses of the Establishment. The board in all cases must be paid quarterly, and in advance. Before the entry of a patient, the board is to be paid up for one quarter. First Class, Second Ditto, Third Ditto, Fourth Ditto, Fifth Ditto, Sixth Ditto, Seventh Ditto, Eighth Ditto, £0 5 0 per week. 0 7 0 0 10 6 0 15 0 110 1 11 6 2 2 0 3 3 0 )> )) The first class—paupers belonging to the parishes that have contributed io the erection of the Asylum. The second class—all other paupers. Every patient who is certified, by four respectable householders, to be unable to pay 10s 6d of board per week, or whatever rate of board may be fixed by the Di¬ rectors to be paid by Class 3d, and to have no relation able to pay this rate of board, shall be considered a pauper, and admitted in Class 2d; but if the patient shall belong to any of the twenty-five parishes* that have contributed £20 and upwards to the erection of the Asylum, such patient shall be admitted into Class 1st. . A fee, on admission, is paid to the Physician by the several classes ot patients as under:— Third Class, Fourth ditto, Fifth and Sixth ditto, Seventh ditto, Eighth ditto, £0 10 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 6 0 0 0 0 On the dismissal or death of a patient, after six and within twelve months the fee is repeated ; but if any patient shall remain longer than one year, the fee is to be repeated only at the end of every successive year of his residence in the Asylum. No fees are paid for Paupers. The patients shall have no claim to remuneration for work done in the House. One shilling per quarter is charged for mending clothes. * See List of Privileged Parishes, page 16.