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Additional material in this volume relates to and includes, block plan of the hospital site; National Health Insurance Act; the Lunacy Administration Committee; staff employment, conditions of service, pension, superannuation, War Bonuses and scales of pay; the Mental Deficiency and Lunacy Scotland Bill; hospital accommodation, buildings and enlargement of the Institution; minutes of a meeting of six Royal Asylums held in Edinburgh, June 1913; Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland report on the status of British Psychiatry and of Medical Officers, July 1913; the hospital's water supply and consumption; rates of board and the Crichton Charitable Fund; reports on cattle feeding experiments, 1911-1915; the requisitioning of Dykebar Asylum by the War Office and a request by the General Board of Control for Crichton Royal to receive extern pauper patients from Glasgow District into Grierson Hall, November and December 1915; correspondence and circulars relating  to requests to accommodate patients from Perth District Asylum, Murthly at Crichton Royal due to requisitioning by War Office, June 1916; correspondence relating to the admission and classification of Service Patients; Climatological station;  the training of discharged Soldiers and Sailors in rural occupations and rules from Crichton Head Gardener and Farm Manager; returns for acreage of woodlands to Board of Agriculture; garden space for staff allotments; census of horses and mules under the Defence of the Realm Act; notices regarding the Food Economy Campaign, War Savings Association and War Pensions Committees; estimates as to the cost of maintenance of the Third Department and proposals to raise the pauper patient rate of board; table showing working patients and types of work engaged in.

Loose items in this volume:
1) Table showing Dispensing of Medicines in Scottish Mental Hospitals (Royal and District Asylums), December 1914
2) Blank application for treatment as a voluntary patient at Crichton Royal, Dumfries, 1915
3) Crichton Royal monthly return of Attendants, Nurses and Domestics for Departments I, II and III showing distribution of staff in hospital buildings, May 1915

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