An overweight teenage girl, with a pearl necklace, sitting on a tricycle. Process print.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]

1 process print ; image 12.4 x 9 cm

Ruby Westwood. Age 13 yrs., weight 17st. 4lb. Born at Foxton New Zealand

Part of a collection of photographs formed by George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1928). He was Superintendent of the Royal Albert Asylum at Lancaster from 1870 to 1893. On his retirement in 1893, he devoted himself to the study of insanity, and published a book entitled "Mentally-deficient children: their treatment and training", London 1895. Some of his photographs, manuscripts and publications were presented to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1929

Wellcome Collection 39131i