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6o4 T he Highland Monthly
Dunbar's Hospital and the Hospital funds, entrusted
through the pious liberality of former generations to the
Kirk-Session and the Hospital Treasurer, now furnish the
means of affording seasonable aid to the deserving and
necessitous poor, including many who do not ask parochial
relief, and some of whom would not be proper objects of it.
Many such are thus helped to pay their rent half-yearly.
If the details given in these chapters appear too minute
or even wearisome, the compiler desires to explain that
they are intended mainly for a book of reference, not a
narrative, and that in many cases he preferred to give
quotations, which will be interesting to some, rather than
to summarise in his own words.
In the administration of the funds, endeavours are
made to comply as far as possible with the wishes of the
respective donors. A separate reparation fund account to
maintain the old Hospital has again been started, in compliance
with Provost Dunbar's express directions ; and in
the autumn of 1891 a new roof was put upon it.
Long may it stand in good repair as a memorial of the
good old man.
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