Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane for the year 1873.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum
Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane for the year 1873. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Asylum architecture from those now prevalent. A considerable sum will be required to modernize those portions of the Asylum buildings, but it is believed that the comfort of the inmates will be greatly enhanced by the changes to be introduced, and their chance of recovery increased. There is herewith submitted the Reports of the Physician- Superintendent and of the Charity Committee. The Managers have much pleasure in directing attention to the great benefits conferred by the Charity Fund in a large number of deserving persons belonging to the respectable labouring class, and also to the middle ranks of life, who are temporarily incapacitated by mental disease from earning their livelihood, and who, but for the timeous aid rendered by the Charity Fund, would be compelled to associate with Pauper Patients, and become chargeable upon the public. The Managers dread that the present high rates of board will compel not a few who have hitherto paid their own way to apply to the Charity Fund for assistance, and they earnestly trust that the prospect of such increased demands will be met by increased liberality on the part of the friends of the deserving and suffering poor, in the form of contributions and legacies to the charitable fund of the institution. (Signed) DAVID CURROR, Senior Manager.
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