Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1854.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum
Date:
1855
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1854. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It E P 0 It T / OF THE CHARITY COMMITTEE OF M A N A G E It S OF THE ROYAL EDINBURGH ASYLUM, FEBRUARY 20, 1855. The Committee appointed to administer the charitable depart¬ ment of the Asylum, have now, as directed in the Act of Parliament, to present their annual account of intromissions, with the funds under their charge, for the year 1854,—in doing which very few observa¬ tions are necessary. It will be noticed, that the whole of the cases of parties enjoying the benefit of the fund at the time of last Report still continue upon the roll, with the exception of one party, whose support has subsequently been undertaken by the City Parochial Board, and another who, though she left the Asylum convalescent in April last, has returned to it again since the commencement of the present year. The labours of the. Committee have been con¬ fined to the consideration of a few additional applications brought under their notice in the course of the year, which have been dealt with according to the best of their judgment, as periodically re¬ ported to, and approved of, by the Managers. It may be mentioned, that in every case in which relief is granted from the fund, an under¬ standing is come to with the applicants, that, in the event of any change taking place in the circumstances of the Patients or of their friends, the same is to be duly reported to the Committee, so that they may have an opportunity of reconsidering the cases under such altered circumstances. In this way, the Committee are enabled to exercise a check against any misapplication of tli'e purposes of the fund. HENRY CRAIG IE.
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