Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane for the year 1850.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum
Date:
1851
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane for the year 1850. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    guineas (£262 : 10.) of which one-half may- be reckoned as the corn^ pensation for his personal trouble and responsibility, and the other as an allowance for his cash keeper and other clerks, and for office rent copyings, stationery, and incidents, not however including postages or printing, or such extra business of a professional nature as may occasionally arise, and that this allowance, although barely adequate, considering the number and amount of the sums passing through his hands, with the responsibility attending his office may, under present circumstances, and with reference to Mr Scott's own feelings on the subject, be deemed a fair remuneration on the scale adopted, so long as the Income of the establishment shall range between £10,000 and £15,000 per annum.” On the occasion of Mr Inglis thus retiring from the office of Sec¬ retary, the Managers unanimously resolved to present him a piece of plate, of the value of Fifty guineas, as a mark of their sense of his valuable services to the Asylum during along period, in the earlier part of which they were rendered gratuitously. The Managers may further state, that having, upon consultation with the Physician, ascertained that the Medical superintendence of the Patients could be fully overtaken by him with the aid of two assistants instead of three, as heretofore, they resolved, as soon as possible, to effect that reduction in the Medical Staff; but at the sametime, in consideration of the additional duties which Avould thus be thrown upon the second assistant, they thought it advisable that he as well as the senior assistant, ought to be allowed a small salary, and in consequence of the recent resignation of the second assistant, this arrangement may be considered to have already come into operation. With regard to the proposed application for an Exchequer Loan to pay off the present debt, and defray the cost of completing the Asylum buildings, the Managers having found, on consultation with the Lord Advocate, that such a Loan would not probably be ob¬ tained, considered it advisable to revert to a plan for accomplishing these objects, which had been incidentally suggested by Mr Brand, at the meeting with his Lordship, and which seemed to be generally approved of by him, viz., to apply to Parliament for a special act, conferring upon the corporation, powers to borrow such a sum as will be sufficient for the desired purposes. Accordingly, after full deli¬ beration, it was resolved that such a Bill should be brought before Parliament during the present session, for empowering the Managers,
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