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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    Practitioners in the City, informing them, that a few Patients might now be received into the Asy- lum, at the rate of One Guinea per week ; and the first Patient was admitted on the lyth ol July 1813- Since that time, five others have been admit- ted. Of these six, one has been dismissed reco- vered ; another has been removed by her relations, as they could not afford to pay the board re- quired ; and the other four still remain in the Asylum. From these six cases, though few in number, demonstrative evidence has already been afforded of the very great benefit which may be obtained from this Institution, both as affording accommo- dation to the Public, and as serving the cause of humanity, under circumstances, perhaps, the most deplorable to which the human species can be re- duced. It has accordingly been a subject of deep regret to the Managers, that they have not been able to extend the blessings of this Institution to to the indigent, from want of funds, and from want of more accommodation, They have been obliged to refuse admission to several paupers, whose situation has been represented as highly ca- lamitous ; and it is, perhaps, singular, that some of these applications have come from parishes, which, although situated in the Eastern District of Scotland, and not among the least opulent pa- rishes, have hitherto made no collection at their church-
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