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

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)
Date:
1908
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Credit: The Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster : a training institution for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland forty-fourth annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    benefit special sermons are preached, or annual collections made, in churches and chapels throughout the northern counties of England. Within the district mentioned, there can hardly be a town or village of any size which has not furnished the Institution with an inmate, and on which it has not in consequence a strong and direct claim. Grateful acknowledgments are due to the following gentlemen, wrho have during the year advocated the cause of the Institution : The Very Rev. the Dean of York, The Minster, York. Rev. W. L. Appleford, Ripley Hospital Church, Lancaster. Rev. H. G. Croft, Chaplain of Sedgefield Asylum. Rev. Canon Garnett, Christleton Church, Chester. Rev. M. Headlam, St. John’s Church, Keswick. Rev. Mr. Higham, Unitarian Church, Ashton-in-Makerfield. Rev. Phipps J. Hornby, St. Michael’s-on-Wyre Church, Garstang. Rev. John T. Lawton, St. Thomas’s Church, Leigh. To the gradual increase in the number of contributions Subscriptions from Industrial Societies and similar organisations the Co f™™t-. Committee again refer with satisfaction. The example SocietteS &c. of the societies mentioned in the appended list might well be followed by others ; and members of friendly and trade societies, and of other associations having at heart the welfare of the industrial classes, might also be asked to consider the claims of the Institution. In this con¬ nection the following extract from Lord Barnard’s speech at the recent Durham meeting may appropriately be quoted : “ They in Durham lived in the midst of an enormously Lord Barnard thick industrial population, and knew the hardships which must be imposed on small households by having one of their children practically incapable of exerting the same mental power that an ordinary well-developed child could do. They knew that the pitmen as a whole were a body of men who had as great love for their families as the rest of mankind, and their generosity, he did not hesitate to say, towards every kind of charitable Institution exceeded that of every class with whom he had had to deal. They could always look to the working classes for support, and he suggested to those responsible for the management of the Institution that if they could enlist on their side the interest of the pitmen’s organisations these societies would, he felt sure, respond to an appeal which they knew wras made not only for the benefit of their own class but for suffering humanity generally.”