Ninety-third annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1905.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum
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[1906]
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Credit: Ninety-third annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1905. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    interest in the welfare of the Asylum. The Corporation will now have to appoint a successor to him. Since the close of the year 1905 the Managers have had to deplore the loss of Mr John Pliilp Wood, LL.l)., Writer to the Signet, who had for nearly live years been a member of the Board, and whose sound judgment and kind assistance his colleagues had always found of the greatest value. Mr Wood was at this time to have retired by rotation, along with the Bev. Dr Mitford Mitchell, and it is for the Corporation to appoint their successors. Dr John Macpherson, one of the Commissioners in Lunacy, inspected the Asylum in the month of June last and reports, inter alia, as follows :— “ It was observed that all the patients who are physically able “ to do so pass much of their time in the open air. Abundant “ opportunities for walking exercise are provided within the “ grounds, while the numerous tennis and crocjuet lawns and the “ golf course afford abundance of healthy and pleasant outdoor “ amusements. A number of the ladies and gentlemen engage “ in gardening work of a light kind. It is a commendable “ feature in the administration that so much liberty of action “ is allowed to the inmates, so that the feeling of restraint is “ made as light as possible for those who are capable of going “ about unattended, and who are therefore more likely to be “ sensitive on the subject of rigorous supervision.” “ The considerable increase in the number of private patients “ is due to the fact that the Directors have now freely opened “ their institution to patients paying the lower rates of board, “ and refuse practically no application of this kind. The boon “ thus conferred upon a large section of the community in “ Edinburgh and the surrounding districts is of course a “ valuable one.” In December last the institution was visited by Dr John Fraser, Commissioner in Lunacy, whose official Ileport contains the following passages :— “The West House is maintained in excellent order. The
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