Report of the Treasurer's Committee, to the Town-Council of Edinburgh, on remit to consider and report as to the best means of obtaining immediate accommodation for pauper lunatics : with an appendix of documents, containing the royal warrant, parliamentary grant, &c. &c.

Date:
1837
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Credit: Report of the Treasurer's Committee, to the Town-Council of Edinburgh, on remit to consider and report as to the best means of obtaining immediate accommodation for pauper lunatics : with an appendix of documents, containing the royal warrant, parliamentary grant, &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    It thus appears, that by stating the expenditure properly, the rich patients have not even repaid the sums expended for their comfort and accommodation, but have actually been benefited to the extent of L. 4,609: 18:8^, out of the funds which should have been devot- ed entirely to the support and relief of the poorer classes, for whom alone the public felt any interest, and for whose exclusive benefit they came forward with their contributions. By calculating the rent at 6;^ per cent, this sum would be increased to L. 8,846 : 3 : 8|. As improvements and repairs requiring a large expenditure are under- stood to be indispensible at no distant period, perhaps the latter cal- culation may be the more accurate of the two, but the former has been adopted in the hope that its reasonableness will be admitted by all who consider the matter dispassionately. The following Table has likewise been framed from the materials contained in the report of the Treasurer, and may be said to contain at one view an epitome of the history of the Asylum from its com- mencement to the present time. TAnvLAR ViEJV,—Shewing the number of Patients admitted, the number removed, and the number remaining in the Asylum during each year, from 1814/o 1836, with the Annual Ordinary Expen- diture incurred for each Patient, and the Averages of the same. Year. Number of patients. Ordinary expenditure for each patient. Exclusive of allowance afS percent for rentof buildings & furniture. Including allowance of IS per cent, for rent of buildings i furniture. Admitted to 31st Dec. RemovcHl to 31st Doc. Remaining at 31st Dec. £ s. i>. £ S. D. 1814 20 10 101 34 2 4 57 6 lOi 1816 21 10 21/ 181G 14 11 24 32 3 57 1 6f 1817 12 13 23 37 19 4 59 4 84 1818 11 12 22 40 10 9 63 5 9 1819 15 12 25 37 10 7i 58 1820 6 7 24 43 4 of 70 18 2| 1821 11 9 26 33 1 62 15 9f 1822 15 18 23 41 11 4 77 7 7| 1823 18 17 24 43 6 .70 0 lOf 1824 9 9 24 44 7 11 81 7 11 1825 25 16 33 86 0 Oi 62 18 2i 1826 22 20 35 40 19 66 6 10| 1827 9 14 30 46 14 4 74 6 6| 1828 11 9 32 37 15 2 65 10 2 1829 18 15 35 40 5 104 65 13 3| 1830 14 15 34 36 19 Of 63 1 .4 1831 14 12 36 40 16 8? 66 11 2 1832 14 11 39 43 18 5 67 16 lOf 1833 14 11 42 41 13 65 12 4f 1834 13 9 46 36 16 58 1835 18 22 42 40 5 4 64 17 81 1836 13 38 to 30th June J T otals, 333 295 38 Averages * 1411 121S 29?i £39 10 61 £6f •7 2i
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