The Royal Albert Institution, Lancaster : for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland forty-ninth annual report.

Annual report. 1912

Lancaster ; Manchester : Royal Albert Institution, 1913.

88 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Dated December 1913

The Royal Albert Institution was originally referred to as the Northern Counties' Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles in 1866, then the Royal Albert Asylum from 1867-1909

Consists of a list of legacies, a prospectus (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 Carlisle 28 May 1913 (Samuel Keir), the report of the central committee (Richard F. Cavendish, chairman), the report of the medical superintendent (Archibald R. Douglas), an appeal for £5,000 to meet the cost of the new farm colony, cases of improvement, the auditor's report (A. B. S. Welch), extracts from the visitors' book, report of the Commissioners in Lunacy (S. J. Turner MacLeod, F. Needham), financial and statistical statements (A. B. S. Welch, Samuel Keir), presents received, a list of places that inmates came from, a short article about Brunton House - the asylum's home for "special private pupils", photographs of the Asylum, its grounds & other buildings and the pupils engaged in school lessons, farming activities etc.