Ninety-sixth annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1908.
- Royal Edinburgh Asylum
- Date:
- [1909]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Ninety-sixth annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1908. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Koyal Edikburgh Asylum, 8th, 9th, and 10th December 1908. There were 765 patients on the Register of the Asylum on the 8th instant, an increase of 35 since the 13th of May last, the date of the previous visit. Of the 765 ])atients on the Register, 465 are private })atients—214 in Craig House and 239 in the West House—and 312 are pauper patients in the West House. The private patients have increased by 16 and the paupe.i patients by 19 in tlie period referred to. It is gratifying to be able to report that the admission into the West House of private patients paying the lower rates of board continues uninterruptedly, and that it is now almost certain that any spare accommodation unoccupied by pauper patients will be utilised in this manner. The 312 pauper patients now in the West House are charge¬ able as follows—141 to the Parish of Leith, 118 to Edinburgh, 47 to parishes in Orkney, and 6 to other districts. Within the past three years, since the removal of the bulk of the Edinburgh patients, the private patients in the West House have increased from about 180 to about 240. This increase has been nearly equally divided between those paying the intermediate and the lower rate of board, the former having increased from 128 in 1905 to 154 at this date, and the latter, during the same period, from 54 to 85. As the reception and treatment of this class of patient is the true function of the Asylum, it is satisfactory to contemplate that since the removal of the bulk of the Edinburgh parish patients it has developed to such an extent. In the period covered by this report 73 private and 64 pauper patients have been admitted; 26 private and 13 pauper patients have been discharged recovered; 8 private and 20 pauper patients have been discharged unrecovered; and 21 private and 14 pauper patients have died. The above figures include changes among both certified and voluntary inmates, and in the total of 765 patients on the Register are included](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30304581_0090.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
