Perth District Asylum (Murthly)

• Reference:GB 252 CC1/11/3
• Dates of Creation:1862-1917

• Scope and Content

  Record books, ledgers and details of maintenance expenditure, cash books, salaries, wages, supperannuation and pensions records

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Perth District Asylum was built in 1864, at Murthly in Caputh parish, by the Perth District Lunacy Board. It was transferred to the Eastern Region Hospital Board under the terms of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. VI, c.27).

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