Report respecting the lunatic asylum of Edinburgh for 1813.

  • Royal Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1814?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report respecting the lunatic asylum of Edinburgh for 1813. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eeption of a few Patients; and the Managers came to the resolution, that they should be open- ed, as soon as proper Keepers should be appoint- ed for the management of the Institution. It was an object of the utmost importance, to obtain a Superintendant in whom confidence could be placed. With this view, they inserted adver- tisements in the newspapers ; in consequence of which, they received several offers, from men well recommended. After mature copsideration, they gave the preference to Mr John Hughes of Lon- don, at that time one of the keepers of St Luke’s Hospital, of whose character and conduct they re- ceived very favourable accounts from Mr Dun- s-tan, Master of St Luke’s, from Dr Sutherland, Physician to that Institution, from Sir (Hubert Blane, and some other respectable characters in London. They accordingly brought Mr Hughes from London, about midsummer, and they ap- pointed his sister, Mrs M. Hughes, who came from London along with him, to be Matron to the Asylum. The Managers are happy in being able to say, that, from the conduct of Mr Hughes and his sis- ter, since they have been in the Asylum, they have much reason to be satisfied with the choice they have made, both of a Superintepdant and Matron. Soon after the arrival of Mr Hughes in Edin- burgh, a circular letter was sent to the Medical Practitioners
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