A document has been unearthed that reveals the high cost of mental health care in Edinburgh in the 1840s.
The eye-opening bill, an image of which appeared on Twitter last weekend, provides a fascinating insight into the state of mental health care as it was almost a century before the National Health Service was set up.
On Sunday, Colin (@LunaticAsylums) tweeted an image of a 174-year-old bill detailing the cost of board for two psychiatric patients at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum - now the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
