Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : twenty-seventh annual report.

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)
Date:
1891
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Credit: Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : twenty-seventh annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Votes.—Donors of Five Guineas have a Life Vote, and Annual Subscribers of Half-a- Guinea an Annual Vote, for each vacany due to their respective Counties. The right of voting, as regards higher sums, increases in the same proportion. Votes of Ministers.—Any Minister preaching, or lending his pulpit for, a Sermon on behalf of the Institution, has a Vote for Life. The Minister of the Place of Worship where the Collection is made, is also entitled to Life Votes for the amount thus raised, at the rate of One Vote for every Five Guineas. Perpetuation of Votes.—At the death of a Donor, a vote for every Ten Guineas of his gift is vested in perpetuity in the Committee of the County to which the gift was originally made ; and Legacies confer the same privilege. This voting power is never to exceed one-fourth of the entire voting power belonging to the Donors and Subscribers in the County. Government.—The Government of the Institution is confided to— (a) A Central Committee, which consists of Representatives from each of the Local Committees, and of Fifteen Subscribers resident in the neighbour¬ hood of Lancaster, to be chosen at the General Annual Meeting. (b) County Committees, constituted by the Members of the Central Committee forming themselves into Sub-Committees for promoting, in their respec¬ tive Counties, the interests of the Asylum. (c) Local Committees, for the purpose of obtaining funds and generally pro¬ moting the interests of the Asylum. Every Local Committee is entitled to send one Representative to the Central Committee, and an additional Representative for each entire Thousand Guineas in Donations after the first Thousand Guineas, and for each entire Fifty Guineas in Annual Subscriptions after the first Fifty Guineas, contributed in that district. The number of patients elected by each County is regulated by the amount of its contributions. Of the 589 patients now in the Asylum, 270 belong to Lancashire, 165 to Yorkshire, 54 to Cheshire, 51 to Durham, 20 to Northumberland, 18 to Cumberland, 7 to Westmorland. Four full payment cases belong to counties not included in the Asylum district. Testimony to the successful working of the Royal Albert Asylum has been borne by the Commissioners in Lunacy ; by the late Dr. Seguin, of New York ; and by other eminent authorities. The Manchester Guardian, Manchester Examiner, Manchester Courier, Liverpool Courier, Leeds Mercury, Sheffield Independent, Bradford Observer, Yorkshire Post, Preston Herald, Halifax Courier, Southport Visiter, and other leading journals, have sent Special Correspondents to describe the daily life of the Institution. The object being one of broad Christian philanthropy, challenges the sym¬ pathy of all classes, and the Committee now confidently appeal for help to raise the Idiot and Imbecile from their state of wasteful sloth, phj^sical deterioration, and mental and moral darkness. Owing to inadequacy of income the accommodation provided is not yet fully utilised, although the Applications for Admission are both numerous and urgent. The Central Committee, therefore, while gratefully acknowledging the generous support which they have received in the past, earnestly APPEAL FOR ADDITIONAL DONATIONS AND ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. Legacies are invested, under Rule 36, for the permanent benefit of the Institution. Reports, Pamphlets, Regulations of Admission, and other information, will be gladly supplied by the General Secretary, Mr. James Diggens, Royal Albert Asjdum, Lancaster. JOHN T. HIBBERT. Chairman of the Central Committee. EDWARD LAWRENCE, Liverpool,) Tr. ri . ANDREW FAIRBAIRN, York, ‘ J 1 ice-Chairmen. December, 1891. JAMES DIGGENS, General Secretary. The Royal Albert Asylum having been established for the benefit of all classes of Idiots and Imbeciles, the Central Committee have purchased a Detached House with extensive private grounds, in convenient proximity to the Asylum Estate, as a Home for special Private Patients attending the Schools and other Occupations at the Institution. BRUNTON HOUSE combines, for Private Patients paying remunerative rates, the seclusion and comforts of a Private Residence with the hygienic, educational, and training resources of a Public Institution under responsible management.