The Asylum for Idiots : instituted October 27, 1847.

  • Asylum for Idiots (Park House, Highgate, London and Essex Hall, Colchester, England)
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MDCCCL. [1850]
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Credit: The Asylum for Idiots : instituted October 27, 1847. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    31 for some Institution, of public name and perma nent character, for the deposit of their charge. The Board have looked anxiously on this arrangement. They are persuaded it will con fer a great benefit on society. They therefore earnestly hope that their Asylum may become both a Schoo] and a Refuge, where the more hopeful may find beneficial training, and the hopeless and forlorn a quiet and grateful place of rest. In construing the third Rule, according to the discretion granted to them, the Board have provided, that the elections are not open either to the pauper or the payment case. The pauper case is excluded, because it is suffi ciently provided for by the law of the land; and the payment case, because it is supposed to be able, in whole or in part, to help itself. The elections, therefore, are accessible to those only who, by respectable habits, are above the pauper, and, by narrow means, deprived of the power of payment. In relation to the payment cases, the Board have provided, that, having respect to the b a
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