Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the year 1848.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the year 1848. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sal has been submitted to them, which, it is hoped, may l>. deemed satisfactory for remedying the evil complained of. In the annual Report by the Physician, which is submitted along with this, will be found the usual details as to the genera results of last year’s experience in the Institution, and th Managers need do nothing more than refer to it in regard b these particulars. The Managers cannot close their Report without alluding t< the circumstance that, during the late general prevalence o cholera, the Asylum, as in the case of the fever and influenzr of last year, has been hitherto free from this epidemic; an< when they reflect on the ravages with which it has visiter establishments of a similar nature in other quarters, and th appaling form in which lunatic Patients are said to be affectec by it, the Managers feel that their humble gratitude is due fo the providential manner in which the Institution under thei care has been hitherto spared. ROBt. MOWBRAY, Chairman»