The Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster : a training institution for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland forty-fifth annual report.

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, Englanc)
Date:
1909
  • Books
  • Online

Available online

view The Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster : a training institution for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland forty-fifth annual report.

Contains: 92 images

In copyright

It is possible this item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You may be able to use this digital item under a copyright exception, otherwise you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). These may be identified elsewhere in the catalogue record. Read more about copyright.

Read further guidance on copyright exceptions in the UK.

Credit

The Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster : a training institution for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland forty-fifth annual report. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Annual report. 1908

Publication/Creation

Lancaster ; Manchester : Royal Albert Asylum, 1909.

Physical description

72 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

Notes

Dated September 1909
Following the first 2 annual reports (January and December 1866), the Northern Counties' Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles was called the Royal Albert Asylum
Consists of a list of legacies, a prospectus (Lathom, Richard F. Cavendish, Charles F. Tetley, Edward B. Dawson, Samuel Keir), list of trustees, presidents, officers and central committee members, a report of the general annual meeting at Bradford on 30 September 1909 (Samuel Keir), the report of the central committee (Lathom, chairman), the report of the medical superintendent (Archibald R. Douglas), cases of improvement, the auditor's report (A. B. S. Welch), financial and statistical statements (A. B. S. Welch, Samuel Keir, A. R. Douglas), list of clergymen and ministers, extracts from speeches, presents received, census of imbecile or feeble-minded persons, a list of places that inmates came from, a short article about Brunton House - the asylum's home for "special private pupils", portraits of the Earl of Lathom (Baron Skelmersdale), Lord Richard Cavendish, Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert (d.1908), Sir Edward Lawrence (d.1909), photographs of the Asylum, its grounds and other satellite homes and the pupils engaged in school lessons, basketmaking, joinery, tailoring etc.

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    WLM28.BE5R88 1903-09
  • Location Access
    Closed stores
    WLM28.BE5R88 1903-09

    Note

Permanent link