Seventy-seventh 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, 1897 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Seventy-seventh 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, 1897 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT BY THE DIRECTORS DUNDEE ROYAL LUNi ANNUAL GENERAL TO THE OF THE 21st JUNE 1897. In submitting their Seventy-seventh Report, the Directors are glad to state that the Dundee Asylum continues in a prosperous condition. Since the last Annual Court of the Directors, the Committee of Management have feued five lots of ground, one at the corner of Balmore Street and Dura Street, extending to fully 40 poles; two on the east side of Baldovan Terrace, extending each to fully 31 poles; another on the east side of Baldovan Terrace of 32 poles; and another on the west side of Baldovan Terrace of fully 30 poles. In March last the Committee of Management, acting under the remit made to them by the Directors at the last Annual Court, sold the superiorities of five lots of ground for £4,405, being fully thirty-three and a-half years’ purchase. The price of the feu-duties sold, after deducting expenses, was paid into the Union Bank for the credit of the Building Account. This Account, which in June last stood at £20,457. 14s. lid., has been reduced to £16,817. 2s. 5d. Dr. A. L. Pentland Smith, who was appointed Medical Assistant in April 1896, has resigned his situation. His successor has not yet been appointed.