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

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)
Date:
1906
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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-second annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deaths and Changes in Central Committee. The Press. Pulpit Advocacy. Salford Local Committee, and in these offices he has been succeeded by the General Secretary, Mr. S. Keir. Special appeals for increased support have been promoted at Liver¬ pool and Wakefield by Mr. G. D. Killey and Mr. W. F. L. Horne respectively, and much might be done in this direc¬ tion elsewhere. The assistance of local gentlemen is earnestly solicited in filling up vacancies which exist in many of these Committees, notably at Burnley, Bury, Doncaster, Sheffield, Skipton, Wakefield, and Wigan, and also in the formation of new Local Committees and Ladies’ Associations in towns which at present possess no such organisations. By the loss of Canon Tristram and the retirement of Mr. D. J. Crossley, referred to in the last paragraph, the Central Committee miss thejservices of two old and valued colleagues ; and by the death of Dr. W. W. Wingate-Saul, who joined the Committee in 1894, the Institution has been deprived of an active and genial supporter, whose advice on matters concerning the medical department was much esteemed. He also acted as Chairman of the Farm Com¬ mittee, in which office he rendered valuable service. Mr. H. L. Storey has succeeded him as Chairman of that Com¬ mittee ; and Dr. William Hall, of Lancaster, was appointed to replace him on the Central Committee. Mr. W. W. Galloway, of Ashton-on-Ribble, has succeeded the Rev. Canon Clarke as a Preston member of the Central Committee, Canon Clarke now representing Rochdale. Mr. James Heald replaces the late Mr. Abram Seward as a Lancaster member ; and Mr. J. E. Willans has been appointed as an additional Huddersfield representative. To the Press of the North of England, the Institution is deeply indebted for continued advocacy and support, and for this the Central Committee return their cordial thanks. An interesting article, descriptive of a visit to the Institu¬ tion, has recently been published in the Southport Visiter. Clergymen and Ministers promote the candidature of many applicants for admission by election, and they might do much in return to further the cause of the Institution by V