Fourteenth annual report of the directors and physician of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics. 1841.

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1841
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Credit: Fourteenth annual report of the directors and physician of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics. 1841. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS AND PHYSICIAN OF JAMES MURRAY’S ROYAL ASYLUM FOR LUNATICS. <■ JUNE 1841. The Directors and Physician of this Asylum have now to present to the public the Fourteenth Annual Report of their proceed¬ ings. They are enabled to discharge this duty with the greater pleasure, when they reflect that, although fourteen years have now expired since the Institution was opened, nothing has occurred to limit its general usefulness, or retard its prosperity. During the last twelve months, the same harmony and good order which have happily hitherto attended the management of the Establishment, and which must ever be regarded as so indispensable to its efficiency and welfare, have continued without interruption. The consequence has been, that, as in former years, so during the last, a considerable number of individuals, who were afflicted with what is generally considered one of the most deplorable and hopeless maladies to which