Sixty-ninth annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 17th June, 1889 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution.

Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics

Date:: 1889

Credit: Sixty-ninth annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 17th June, 1889 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ during the past year has been - j and the Expenditure - iC shewing a Profit on the House of if The Profit on Dairy has been - d Profit on Earm and Garden - Do. Old Asylum - Gross Profit on Year 4 Deduct—Year’s Interest charged on Account with Union Bank of Scotland, Ld.; for Building purposes (say Rent) - shewing a net Deficiency on the Year of £9626 823*7 3 14 10 7 £1388 9 Q o 176 17 1 57 11 1 14 11 6 £1636 8 11 2536 10 0 £900 1 1 The Asylum has been frequently and carefully inspected \ by the House Visitors, who have testified to the excellent if order in which they have found the Institution, and to its aj general efficiency. Dean Uicolson, one of the House Visitors, has died since |1 last Annual Meeting, and the Directors record the loss they 7]ihave sustained by his death with deep regret. Elected a !i Director in 1874, and a House Visitor in 1877, he took a warm >} interest in the welfare of the Institution. The Medical Superintendent’s Report shews that on 18th June last there were 297 patients in the Asylum—127 males, CU70 females; while there are at present 327, that number being made up of 139 males and 188 females, 147 having been {■admitted during the year, 49 having recovered, 32 having died, ' 1 having escaped, 21 having been removed to the Lunatic ffWards of Poor houses, 5 to other Asylums, 6 by friends, 2 by i (Minute of Parochial Boards, and 1 transferred to Edinburgh i Prison. The Directors have again to state that they are satisfied ||with the manner in.which the various Officials of the Asylum ! perform their respective duties, .$