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LOCAL INSTITUTIONS— CHARITABLE. 83
INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION OF DEAF AND DUMB.
Patron, The Most Noble the Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy Seal.
President, The Right Hon. the Earl of Eglinton and Winton.
Honorary Vice-President, Rev. Dr. Muir, Edinburgh.
Vice-Presidents — Hon. the Lord Provost, Very Rev. Principal Macfarlan, Jas.
Ewing, H. Ewing Maclae, William Smith, James A. Anderson, James Buchanan,
James Hutchison.
Directors — Revds. Dr. Henderson, Dr. Robson, Dr. Roxburgh, Professor Eadie,
Charles Popham Miles, Dr. Jamieson, Dr. Hill, and Rev. Norman M'Leod; Messrs.
John Cabbell, J. D. Bryce, William Buchanan, W, Campbell of Tillichewan, Andw.
Wingate, John Crum, John Jamieson, Donald Smith, W. C. Alston, Robert Craig,
James Reid, Andrew Tennant.
Secretary, S. M. Penney, 16 St. Vincent Place.
Treasurer, Hugh Maclachlan, 12 Gordon Street.
Physician, A. Dunlop Anderson. Surgeon, Andrew Anderson.
Teacher, Duncan Anderson.
Assistant Teachers, William Harvey, C. Campbell, James Lawrie.
Matron, Mrs. Kinniburgh.
The School, Barony Glebe, near the High Church, may be visited by strangers
every Wednesday, at two o'clock afternoon, but on no other day.
ROYAL LUNATIC ASYLUM, GARTNAVEL.
Directors, &c, for 1853.
The Lord Provost, President, ex-ojjlcio.
From Town Council. — David Macinlay and William Bankier.
From Merchants' House. — The Dean of Guild and Alexander Wingate.
From Trades' House. — William Fraser and Hugh M'Coll.
From Physicians and Surgeons. — Drs. A. D. Anderson, and B. G. Maxwell.
From General Session.— Rev. Dr. John Muir and John Cabbell.
Fro At General Body op Contributors. — Sir James Anderson, M.P., William
M'Lean, Robt. Findlay, Hugh Cogan, David Hope, John Smith, Thomas Hill, and
John Brown, junior.
The Chief Magistrate of Paisley ; Dr. Allen Thomson, Professor of Anatomy ; Dr.
John Macfailane, Professor of Medicine ; and Dr. Alex. Mackintosh, Physician to the
Asylum, ex-officio.
Weekly Committee. — Messrs. Findlay, M'Lean, Bankier, Macinlay, Smith, and
Brown.
Committee on Accounts. — Messrs. Hope, Smith, and Hill.
Visitors. — The Lord Provost and the Dean of Guild ; Messrs. Wingate, Fraser,
and M'Coll ; Dr. Anderson and R. G. Maxwell ; Rev. Dr. Muir and John Cabbell ;
Sir James Anderson, M.P. ; Messrs. Cogan, Hope, and Hill.
officers of the asylum.
Resident — Physician Superintendent, Alex. Mackintosh, M.D. ; Medical Assist-
ants, John Brown, M.D., and James M'Ghie, M.D. ; Superintendent of Ladies, Mrs.
Mapleson ; Steward, John Arthur ; Master of Works, David Watson.
Non-Resident. — Surgeon, John G. Fleming, M.D. ; Treasurer and Secretary,
Donald Cuthbertson, LL.B. ; Chaplain, Rev. J. R. Russell.
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
1. The Board is, in all cases, payable quarterly, and in advance.
2. The regular quarterly terms are — 1st January, 1st April, 1st July, and 1st
October. In regard to patients at and above the rate of 15s. per week, no part of the
first quarter's board shall be returned, except in the event of the patient dying before
the expiry of that period, in which case it shall be in the power of the weekly com-
mittee to allow the return of such proportion of the board as, under all the circum-
stances, they shall consider reasonable.
3. Patients have no claim for remuneration for their labour.