Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1851.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum
Date:
1852
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1851. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PHYSICIAN’S ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL EDINBURGH ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, FOR THE YEAR 1861. Read at the Annual Meeting of thje Contributors^ meld on the 23rd February 1852. After a certain era in the history of a large Institution, such as this, the annual records of its progress must tend more or less to sameness and repetition. When the structure is completed, the house filled, and all the plans devised for the benefit of its inmates have been fully developed and put in active operation, the history of one year becomes nearly that of its predecessors. What is true of the record is liable to become equally true in regard to the facts. When a definite system of operations has been adopted, formed, it may be, upon the most approved models for the time, it is apt sloYvly to degenerate into a routine from which much of the original vigour and activity which characterised it gradually disappear. I am happy to be able to assure you, on this occasion, that the Institu¬ tion under your management, has not yet arri^^ed at this period of its history, and that I still have it in my poYver, as in former years, to report progress, and a continuance of zeal, activity, and increased efforts for the furtherance of those great ends for which the Asylum was founded.
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