Report of the directors of the Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum, infirmary and dispensary for the year ending 1st June, 1853.

  • Royal Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary, and Dispensary of Montrose.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Report of the directors of the Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum, infirmary and dispensary for the year ending 1st June, 1853. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    l5i( June^ 1853. The Committee, in submitting their Annual Report, are un able to give so favorable a statement of the Finances of the Infirmary as presented in their Report of last year. This has been principally occasioned by the large number of fever patients, which has caused a considerable increase in the expenditure for wine, spirits, medicines, and food. There has, at the same time, been a falling off in the Collections from Churches and Parochial Boards, and no Receipts have been re¬ ceived this year from Societies and Work-people. Your Committee are convinced, that it is only necessary to direct attention to the preceding statement, to produce increased receipts next year, as the advantages afforded by the Infirmary are so well appreciated by all classes of the community. The Sum of £150 was voted from the general fund, at the last Annual Meeting of the Asylum, in addition to which, there has been received from— Churches and Parochial Boards, ... £72 18 2 Private Individuals, ... ... ... 160 16 0 Banks and Millowners, ... ... ... 31 10 0 Fines from Magistrates of Montrose, .. 6 2 3 Shipmasters in Montrose, ... ... 10 17 6 £282 3 11 The Committee have continued in their superintendence of the Infirmary, the usual weekly visits to the House. ROB. MILLAR, Chairman of the Infirmary Committee.