Thirty-second 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, 21st June, 1852 with the report of the medical officers.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Thirty-second 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, 21st June, 1852 with the report of the medical officers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    legacy would not imply any obligation on their part to receive aliment and provide for a pauper from the parish of Kingsbarns without paymentand u that, according to the sound con¬ struction of the clause in Mr Monypenn/s settlement, their obligation would be at all times to make room for, and receive when required, whether this would have been convenient and advantageous for them or not, a pauper patient from the parish of Kingsbarns, at the rate of board applicable to an individual belonging to the class of pauper patients.” Being thus advised, the Directors felt at liberty to accept of the bequest, under the conditions of the will, and accordingly they have now to acknowledge receipt from Mr Monypenny’s executors of £111, 15s lOd, being the balance of £120, after deducting legacy- duty. A legacy of £300 has been intimated by the executors of the late Lord Panmure, whose munificent liberality to the various charities of the county in general, and of the town of Dundee in particular, will long be remembered with gratitude. This legacy has not as yet been paid. The following legacies have been received :—from Mrs Morrison of Naughton £184, 10s; from Miss Janet Maxwell £45, 7s lOd ; from Miss Lilias Maxwell £45 ; from Mrs Helen Maxwell or Blair £19, 19s; from Mrs Catherine Macdonald, Dundee, £19, 19s, and a small donation of 10s 4d. Ever since the foundation of this Asylum it has been the constant effort of those entrusted with the management of its affairs, to introduce with promptitude, and carry out with liberality, all the successive improvements that have been made in the treatment of the insane. It will not be expected, there¬ fore, that the Directors should have now to announce any remarkable alteration in the systems pursued. They cannot say anything better than that the methods have been persevered in which have in former years secured for this Asylum so large a share of public confidence, and so pleasing an amount of