| Description Of Item | Report provides details of the two madhouses in Linlithgow. The report details the ‘disgraceful state’ of one of the madhouses resulting in the inspectors from the Royal College of Physicians refusing to renew the License of the Keeper. The establishment closed in 1846. The other madhouse only had one inmate and was in a ‘clean and comfortable’ state. There is an account at the end of the report showing the sums received by the Sheriff for Licenses for keeping madhouses. |