Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year ending 31st December 1864.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum
Date:
1865
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year ending 31st December 1864. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    $ Pauper Lunatics: .but it is gratifying to know that the Commis¬ sioners in Lunacy have expressed their entire approval of what has been done, and the Managers now propose permanently to continue the new dietary which has been introduced. No event of any importance has taken place during the past year in connection with the departments of the Institution appro¬ priated to the use of the middle and better class of Patients. The Cottage formerly occupied by Dr Skae, which was fitted up some time ago for the reception of Female Patients paying high rates of board, continues to be made use of to a considerable extent: and the Managers trust that when this very desirable place of residence comes to be more generally known, the public will avail themselves more extensively of the privacy and retirement which it offers. During the past year various payments have been made to \ account of the capital of the Statutory Debt, amounting in all to L.P200, while the Unsecured Debt has also been reduced by i upwards of L.800. The Managers were enabled to effect this i reduction partly by the balance at the credit of the Sinking Fund,, and partly by the surplus revenue arising during the year. The following figures shew the amount of Debt at the present i time as contrasted with what it was at the close of the year 1863. The total amount of Debt at 31st December 1863 was— Statutory Debt, ..... L.24,718 0 11 Other Obligations, .... 5,263 11 11 -- L.29,981 12 10 Statutory Debt at 31st Dec. 1864, . . . L.23,518 0 11 Other Obligations, . 4,950 7 10J -- 28,468 8 9J --- Decrease of actual Debt, . . L.1,513 4 0-|- The above satisfactory result is in a great measure to be attri¬ buted to the circumstance of there having been little or no extra¬ ordinary expenditure during the past year. The Managers cannot* I
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