Ninety-first annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1903.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum
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[1904]
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Credit: Ninety-first annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1903. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    o O In the above Ordinary Expenditure is included the sum of £500, being the duplicand feu-duty paid at Whitsunday 1903 to the Trustees of the late Mr Gordon of Cluny, on the Estate of Craig House. This is an item of expenditure which cannot recur until the lapse of 25 years. The Extraordinary Expenditure for last year, not included in the above figures, consists of two items wholly chargeable against the West House. These are :— 1. The cost of additional accommodation at the piggery ..... £241 15 2 2. The cost of removing the old sewage drains at the West House, now superseded by the new drainage system, and making provision for the removal of surface water, etc. . . . 674 1 9 Total . . . £915 16 11 The Managers do not consider themselves justified in treating this outlay as Ordinary Expenditure chargeable directly against the West House patients, both items being clearly chargeable against Capital, and of which the interest only, with an annual instalment towards principal might, under the Decree of the Court of 25tli November 1886, be properly debited to the pauper patients. On turning to the Sinking Fund Account, however, it will be seen that the estimated debt affecting the West House under the Scheme of Liquidation approved by the Court, amounted, at 31st December 1902 to . £25,356 3 3 While the actual debt was only . . 24,182 4 1 Showing a balance at the credit of the Sinking Fund of . . . . . £1,173 19 2 The Managers, therefore, propose to charge against the Sinking Fund the whole sums expended upon the piggery and the drainage works.
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