Thirty-sixth 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, 16th June, 1856 with the report of the medical officers.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics
Date:
1856
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Credit: Thirty-sixth 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, 16th June, 1856 with the report of the medical officers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8a RATES OF BOARD. The following is the present rate of Board—subject, however, to such altera¬ tions as the Directors shall judge proper, and which must necessarily vary according to the state of the funds and the expense of the Establishment, The Board in all cases must be paid quarterly, and in advance. Before the entry of a patient, the board is to be paid up for one quarter. First Class, £0 6 0 per week. Second Ditto, ' ... 0 8 0 Third Ditto, 0 10 6 Fourth Ditto, 0 15 0 >> Fifth Ditto, 1 1 0 1 9 Sixth Ditto, 1 11 G 99 Seventh Ditto, 2 2 0 9 9 Eighth Ditto, 3 3 0 9 9 The First Class—paupers belonging to the parishes that have contributed to the erection of the Asylum. The Second Class—all other paupers. Every patient, who is certified by four respectable householders to be unable to pay 10s. 6d. of board per week, or whatever rate of board may be fixed by the Directors to be paid by Class 3d, and to have no relation able to pay this rate of board, shall be considered a pauper, and admitted in Class 2d ; but if the patient shall belong to any of the twenty five parishes* that have contributed £20 and upwards to the erection of the Asylum, such patient shall be ad¬ mitted into Class 1st, A fee, on admission, is paid to the Physician by the several classes of patients as under ;— Third Class, ... ... ... ... £0 10 6 Fourth Ditto, ... ... ... ... 110 Fifth and Sixth Ditto, .. ... .. 2 2 0 Seventh, ... .. ... ... ... 330 Eighth, ... ... ... ... 440 On the dismissal or death of a patient, after six and within twelve months the fee is repeated ; but, if any patient shall remain longer than one year, the fee is to be repe.ated only at the end of every successive year of his residence in the Avsylum. No fees are paid for Paupers. The patients shall have no claim to remuneration for work done in the House, One shilling per quarter is charged for mending Clothes. * See list of Privileged Parishe.s, ]>. LS. E