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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    REPORT BY THE DIRECTORS OF THE DUNDEE ROYAL LUNATIC ASYLUM, TO THE ANNUAL GENERAL COURT, IGTH JUNE 1856. As the Medical Superintendent will lay before you the details of domestic management and medical treatment, and as the Treasurer will present his statement of accounts for the bygone year, there is no necessity for a lengthened report by the Di¬ rectors ; in fact, there is very little left for them to say. The events of a general nature which they have to notice are so few, and the working of the Institution has been so smooth and uniform, that were it not for the purpose of bearing an independent testimony to the excellent management and thorough efficiency of the Asylum, this separate report by the Directors might almost be dispensed with. In conformity, however, with what is usual at the annual meeting, they submit the following statement:— During the past year 36 patients have been admitted, laboining under various forms and in different stages of men¬ tal disease. Within the same period 20 have been discharged cured ; 5, more or less improved, have been removed by their relatives or natural guardians ; and II have died within the walls of the A.sylmu.