The seventy-fourth annual report of James Murray's Royal Asylum Perth.

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics
Date:
1901
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Credit: The seventy-fourth annual report of James Murray's Royal Asylum Perth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    extent of ground than was formerly thought necessary. The District Boards of Lunacy of Edinburgh and Aberdeen have embarked on schemes which will result in village communities rather than in great barracks. No doubt the success of the villas at Murthly has given an impetus to these designs, the development of which will be watched with great interest. In dealing with private patients, however, their wishes must be taken into consideration, and I rather incline to compromise, by advising that any additional accommodation should be capable of being attached to the main Asylum by covered corridors, as has been done at the Craig House department of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. It is a distinct advantage that patients should be able to mingle in the social life of the Institution on winter evenings without having to wrap up and use the carriages, and the comfort and con¬ venience of the staff in giving that personal and constant attention which is necessary should be considered. The male dormitories for patients at the lower rates have been over-full, but some relief has been found by raising the minimum Rate of Board for out-county patients to ^84 per annum. Thirty-three patients were received for the first time ; 3 returned relapsed, after having been discharged recovered; 1 returned after long absence in another Asylum; and 1 returned as unsuitable for private care. Six were transferred from other Asylums, and 2 had previously been in other Asylums. Of the 38 thus admitted, 16 were found free from physical diseases more or less severe, and 2 died within a short time after
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