Tables illustrative of the practice of British hospitals for the insane, as regards the superannuation of all classes of officers and servants / by W. Lauder Lindsay.

Date:
1875
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Credit: Tables illustrative of the practice of British hospitals for the insane, as regards the superannuation of all classes of officers and servants / by W. Lauder Lindsay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    II.—DATA FOR THE TABLES. The following Tables liave been based on the following Data:— (1) To Mr. W. C. Corbet, Chief of the Secretarial de- partment of the Office of Irish Lunatic Asylums, Dublin Castle, I am indebted for the last Annual Blue-book of the Irish Lunacy Commissioners (23d, 1874), which contains (at pages 228, 229, and 261) elaborate Tables showing the Superannuation-allowances at present being enjoyed in the District Asylums of Ireland; the Pensions that have lapsed by death during the year ; and the existing and lapsed Pensions in the State Asylum for Criminal Lunatics at Dundrum, The Irish Public Asylums have long been distinguished for their systematic adoption of the Principle and Practice of granting, on a fixed scale, Pensions to all classes of their officers and servants; while the Irish Lunacy Blue- books have been, compared with those of the Sister King- doms, conspicuous for the prominence they give to the Tabulation of the Salaries, Wages, Allowances, with their money value, and Pensions, of the officers and ser- vants of the various Pubhc establishments under the jurisdiction of the Irish Lunacy Commissioners. In this respect—one of the utmost practical import- ance—the Irish Commissioners offer an admirable ex- ample to those of England and Scotland. It is obviously the foremost duty of the Lunacy Commissioners in all the Three Kingdoms to aid in rendering as efficient as possible the existing Public Asylums—a duty that is of
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