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Minute Book No.18

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Signed minutes of monthly and Annual General Meetings of Board of Directors, which contain minutes of meetings of Committees including Finance, House, Farm, Works, Stables and Garage, and Gardens. Additional reports and material at the rear of the volume relate to the treatment of rate-aided patients as voluntaries; Crichton Royal Institution valuation of reserve fund; and institutional accommodation for mental defectives. Volume indexed at front.
Loose items found in Minute Book No.18:
1) Copy letter from General Board of Control for Scotland to Clerk of District Board of Control for Dumfries regarding accommodation for mental defectives in Scotland, 23 October 1925
2) Letter from District Board of Control for Dumfries Lunacy District regarding mental defectives, 22 April 1926
3) Blank Memorandum from the Physician Superintendent to Inspectors of Poor intended to record the number of mental defectives aged sixteen and upwards , 30 April 1926
4) Memorandum regarding mental defectives submitted by Physician Superintendent to Board of Direction, 11 June 1926
5) List of the Trustees and Directors of the Crichton Royal Institution, under the C.R.I. Act 1840, List I. 1840-1897
6) List of The Board of Direction of the Crichton Royal Institution, under C.R.I. Act 1897, List II. 1898-1938

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Minute Book No.18

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