Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 42nd 1900
- Great Britain. General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland.
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 42nd 1900. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![still more male patients resident than the asylum can properly Present Con. accommodate. The new villa for female patients is approaching ished tial aa completion, and it is expected that it will be ready for occupation néGafaniae before the close of the present year. An addition, to the laundry ize ‘asylums, block and operations connected with the enlargement of the kitchen in the main asylum block are making satisfactory progress. Commendatory remarks are made regarding the comfortable furnishing of the wards and the absence of excitement among the patients. The wards in the Banff District Asylum are reported to be Banff District scrupulously clean, and the grounds around the asylum are Talyebaa 38 admirably kept. The asylum is greatly overcrowded, but the number of inmates has fortunately not increased during the year. It is recorded with satisfaction that the District Board have now in their hands the completed plans for the extension and rearrange- ment of the male side of the asylum. A new water supply, capable of affording upwards of 60 gallons per head per day, has been obtained for the institution. The number of patients on the register of the Crichton Royal] Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries, has not very materially diminished, not- haunt withstanding the transference of the Govan patients to their own asylum at Hawkhead, and the removal thereby of all the extra- district pauper patients. Except for the overcrowding in the Second House, especially on the male side, the patients throughout the whole institution are reported to have been found in all respects liberally provided for, and their condition to have been in all respects satisfactory. The manner in which the case-books and pathological records were kept indicated that the work of the medical staff is ably and diligently performed. It is recorded with satisfaction that plans are being prepared for the erection of an asylum to be built on the villa system for 300 pauper patients, and that the Directors propose to devote the whole of the Second House to the accommodation of private patients paying the intermediate and lower rates of board. A new farm annexe capable of accommodating 60 patients, and situated in the immediate vicinity of the farm steading, has been completed, and is described as possessing general arrangements and fittings of the best description. The reports on the Dundee Royal Asylum state that consider- ee pone able progress has taken place in the building of the new separate ‘ea house for private patients. The site is described as suitable, and the plans indicate that the internal arrangements of the buildings will prove adequate for their purpose. Jor the present, it is stated, the overcrowding which existed in the main building has been relieved by a falling off in the number of pauper patients admitted. This falling off is chiefly, if not wholly, due to a large number of the Dundee paupers having been sent during the last two years to the Montrose Asylum. Against this, however, has to be placed a slight increase in the number of private patients. The asylum is](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31856573_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
