Report for 1818.

  • Royal Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1819?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report for 1818. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    privations of which these Patients complained; such as the want of the free use of pen, ink and paper on all occasions, of candles, and of razors, have their origin in the rules to which Mr Hughes is subjected by the Managers ; and they are con- vinced, that these complaints arose solely from the patients alluded to, having left the Hospital before they were in a state of perfect re-convalescence. Other patients, completely restored to the use of reason in the Asylum, have returned to Mr Hughes the most cordial acknowledgments for his humane attention. As far as the Managers have been able to learn, not one Patient has left the Edinburgh Asylum fully recovered from his unfortunate calamity, who has not gratefully ac- knowledged the benefit and the blessings he de- rived from it. The conduct of the Matron, and of the under keepers, both male and female, during the year IS 18, has been such as to merit the approbation of the Managers. Subscriptions for the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum are received, and receipts granted, by Alex- ander BoNAR,Esq. Banker, at Messrs Ram- says, Bonars, and Company, Royal Ex- change. It is the intention of the Managers to finish that portion of the building which is already begun, as soon as money can be ob- tained for that purpose.
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