Fourth annual report of the Inverness District Lunatic Asylum : May 1868.

  • Inverness District Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1868
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Credit: Fourth annual report of the Inverness District Lunatic Asylum : May 1868. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gkbstmt of tfte grorndtoflis of the gouge anfl Wijsititt® (Kowmittee OF THE m'fm&mmm »m m<be For the Year 1867-68. ■*'KKW®45'Mb— COMMITTEE POR 1867-68. Chairman—Sheriff Thomson. Colonel Fraser-Tytler, Convener of the County of Inverness. Arthur Forbes, Esq. of Culloden. Fountaine Walker, Esq. of Foyers. John Fraser, Esq. of Balnain. Dr John Mackenzie of Eileanach. W. A. Stables, Esq., Cawdor Castle. C. Lyon-M ACKENZiE,Esq. of St Martins. Bailie Dallas, Inverness, and Bailie Simpson, Inverness. This Committee was appointed at the Annual Meeting of the Dis¬ trict Board on the 5th July 1867, and held its first meeting on the 9th of that month. As empowered by the Board, they examined the certificates of qualification and character of three canditates for the situation of resident engineer and plumber for the Asylum—in room of David Logan, lately resigned—and preferred those of David Scott, Inverness, who was appointed with the same salary as hia predecessor (£60 a-year), with house accommodation, coals, gas, and vegetables from the garden. The Committee also examined and approved of a plan and specification by Mr William Paterson, C.E., Inverness, for carrying away the surplus sewage from the Asylum, through the farm of Mile-end; empowered him to procure the requisite tile pipes, and to employ a competent contractor to cut the trenches and lay the drains. At the next meeting the Committee investigated a complaint which had been made as to the supply of certain of the provisions supplied to the House.
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