Eighty-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, 16th June, 1902 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Eighty-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, 16th June, 1902 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL REPORT, 16th JUNE 190 2. On 17th June 1901, the date of last Annual Meeting, the number of patients on the Registers of the Asylum was 412. Of these, 88 were private patients, namely, 42 males and 46 females; and 324, namely, 129 males and 195 females, were paupers. In addition, two ladies were resident as voluntary patients, with the permission and approval of the General Board of Lunacy, but such are not regarded as Insane Persons under the Lunacy Statutes. 139 patients have since been admitted, namely, 59 males and 80 females. Of these, 25 were private patients, that is persons the expense of whose maintenance is defrayed by their relatives or by friends, and 114 were patients paid for in whole or in part by parish rates. Five voluntary patients, two ladies and three gentlemen, were also admitted during the year. As has now been the case for many years, a large proportion of the rate-paid patients was received from the City of Dundee and its immediate neighbourhood. Thus of the 114, 110 were admitted from the Parish of Dundee, two from that of Mains and Strathmartine, one from that of Monifieth, one from Glamis, and one from Montrose. Eo patient has been refused admission, and with four exceptions all the pauper patients at present resident in the Asylum belong to Forfarshire. The total number under treatment has consequently been 551 in all, being 22 more than the corresponding number for last year. Of these, 38 have been discharged recovered. 9 have been transferred to other Asylums, principally pauper cases found after admission to be chargeable to Parishes beyond Forfarshire ; 5 were removed to the Lunatic Wards of Poorhouses; 4 by