Scope and Contents The hospital’s earlier annual reports are bound up with pamphlets relating to the setting up of the hospital. This section therefore contains a considerable amount of material concerning the background to the hospital as well as its annual reports.The earliest annual reports are very brief: they gradually expand during the 1820s and 1830s to include patient statistics, annual accounts and lists of office bearers. From the appointment of...

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2 files, arranged in indexed, alphabetically coded sections

Scope and Contents Book-plate - Serpent rising from a bleeding heart, splitting two heraldic crests. Text - 'Ex Libris Doctoris Otto E e Moll'. General Directions - prohibition of profane language, apprentices behaviour, rules on keeping drinking money and allowance to drink on first Saturday of March and August Directions to the Compositors, every compositor to furnish himself with a good composing...

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Concerns the rules and regulations for staff and patients of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Includes rules for the head gardener; matron; house steward; and chaplain.

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Bound volumes and loose paper material concerning the running of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

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Miscellaneous records relating to the hospital, includes: Stock ledger: farm animals; Memo book from Steward to Medical Superintendent; Additions and alterations to Asylum; Volume of correspondence; 'Rosslynlee Hospital' pamphlet; Female Ward Work Book; Dangerous Drugs ward register; a Medical Digest; Asylum Library Ledger (undated); and a copy of Rules and Regulations for Staff.

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