Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1856.

Royal Edinburgh Asylum.

Date:: 1857

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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1856. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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R E P 0 R T OF THE CHARITY COMMITTEE OF MANAGERS OF THE ROYAL EDINBURGH ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, FEBRUARY 23, 1857. In presenting their Account of Intromissions with the Fund for the past year, the Committee have little to add in the form of Report, to the information which is brought out in the States now submitted. All the recipients of the benefit of the Fund last year are still upon the roll, to which have been added two others, whose cases were at the time subjected to the same scrutiny which the Com¬ mittee have always bestowed upon applications for relief, one of the latter parties having since recovered. The total Ordinary Income of the Fund for the year was £145 11s.; and the amount of contributions made from it £88 10s.; and the Fund itself, as at 31st December, 1856, amounted to £3666 2s. 9d.; the increase since last year being caused chiefly by a legacy of £250 from the late Mr H. M. Gibb, of the Royal Hotel, who, during his life, was a constant annual contributor to the Asylum Funds. GEORGE SMITH, Convener.