Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): boys walking along a ladder laid upon the floor. Photograph.

1 photograph : photoprint, silver gelatin ; image 11.4 x 15.6 cm

Idiot Asylum Kew Victoria. Drill room

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 39141i