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Boarding-out of Pauper Lunatics in Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Extract

Those who were present at the Glasgow meeting of the British Medical Association will remember that our Scotch members, especially Dr. Turnbull, endeavoured to get up an excursion to Kennoway. It was hoped that at least twenty would avail themselves of the opportunity, but the hope was not fulfilled; then ten, but this also failed; lastly five, but I am sorry to say there were not even five righteous men found in the Psychology Section of the British Medical Association. The excursion was therefore abandoned.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1889 

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* Compare with this the much larger proportion at Gheel given in my article, “A Recent Visit to Gheel“—”Journal of Mental Science,” Jan., 1886.Google Scholar

* “Report of Scotch Commissioners, 1888,” p. 118.Google Scholar

Op. cit., p. 119.Google Scholar

* See Scotch Report, p. 107–8.Google Scholar

* See Record of Accidents, etc., in the Commissioners' Report, 1888, p. 113 and 122. For an authoritative and candid account of the boarding-out system, see Sir Arthur Mitchell's book, entitled “The Insane in Private Dwellings.” Edinburgh, 1864.Google Scholar

Many who are chargeable to Midlothian are boarded out in other counties, the majority being in Fife.Google Scholar

* The above is a decrease since last year of 24 in the number of Single Patients visited, and an increase of 30 in the number in Specially Licensed Houses, or a net increase of six.Google Scholar

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