Second annual report of the Inverness District Lunatic Asylum : May 1866.

  • Inverness District Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Second annual report of the Inverness District Lunatic Asylum : May 1866. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    }Ill’st planted should be the rough stoney ground to the east and j orth of the farm offices and garden, as shown on Mr G. G. Mac- [J:ay’s survey and plan, and that the knoll adjoining the new IBemetery, and the knoll immediately to the west of the Medical ;superintendent’s house, should also be enclosed and planted as far >Louth as a line in red ink marked on said plan. The Committee ire of opinion that the rest of the planting may be delayed for the [present, and that when the portions indicated above are enclosed? the pasture on the lands may be let out, as proposed by the Manager, Charles Findlay, to whom also the selection of the trees and plants, [and the placing them in the grounds, may also be intrusted. The flower plots around Dr Aitken’s house were also authorised to be planted with a few shrubs. (Signed) WM. FRASER-TYTLER. C. LYON MACKENZIE. W. DALLAS. At a Meeting of the House Committee of the Inverness Dis¬ trict Lunatic Asylum, held therein on the 13th day of November 1865: Present—VV. H. Thomson, Esq., Chairman; Colonel Fraser-Tytler of Aldourie; Provost Lyon-Mackenzie; Bailie Dallas, Inverness: The Medical Superintendent produced a copy of the advertise¬ ment calling for tenders for provisions, clothing, and coals, &c., for a year from lltli November current. Thereafter the Committee examined the books kept by the Medical Superintendent and House Steward, including the register of patients, and were satisfied with the state thereof. The Committee next inspected the whole Asylum, with the farm offices and outhouses, and they likewise examined all the lunatic patients, officials, and servants in the establishment, and were satisfied with the state of the whole as regarded the apparent bodily health of the inmates, the cleanliness of their clothing and persons, and the order and cleanliness of the day-rooms, dormitories, and other apartments in the Asylum. (Signed) WM. FRASER-TYTLER. C. LYON-MACKENZIE.