1896 NAPIER, DAVID (Fife, Scotland, Asylum Regisgters)

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Publication Fife and Kinross District Asylum Registers, Fife Library and Archives Services, Fife, Scotland.
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Admission Number: 2715

Date of Admission: 25th January 1896

Name: David Napier

Sex: M

Class: Pauper

Age: 64

Condition: Married

Previous Occupation: Pid Drawer

Previous Place of Abode: 100 Roslyn Street, Gallatown

County or Parish to which chargeable: Dysart

By whose Authority Sent: Dd. Fillespie, Esq., Sheriff Substitute

Dates of Medical Certificates and by whom signed: W.H.Goodenough L.R.C.P & S.E. 22nd January, 1896, R. B. Proudfoot M.D. 22 January 1896

Bodily Condition: Weak

Name of disorder: Has chronic Bronchitis & impaired percussion at apaces of both lungs

Form of mental disorder: Melancholia

Supposed cause of insanity: Unknown

Duration of existing attacks: One month

Number of previous attacks: 0

Age of first attack: 64

Date of Discharge: 2nd November 1901

Died: Yes

Observations: Agnes Nicholson or Napier, 100 Roslyn St, Gallatown - Wife

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Now known as Stratheden Hospital, Fife and Kinross District Asylum opened on 1st July 1866 and was built to accommodate up to 200 patients. The first Chief Physician, John Batty Tuke, was an early pioneer of ‘open door’ treatment policy, meaning that patients were granted the responsibility to come and go as they pleased and helped to revolutionise the way psychiatric patients were treated. In 1896, the facility was extended to home up to 600 patients.

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