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.

Annual report. 1907

Lancaster ; Manchester : Royal Albert Asylum, 1908.

82 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Dated September 1908

Following the first 2 annual reports (January and December 1866), the Northern Counties' Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles was called the Royal Albert Asylum

Consists of a list of legacies, a prospectus (John T. Hibbert, Edward Lawrence, Lathom, Richard F. Cavendish, Samuel Keir), list of trustees, presidents, officers and central committee members, a report of the general annual meeting at the asylum on 30 September 1908, the report of the central committee (John T. Hibbert, chairman), the report of the medical superintendent (Archibald R. Douglas), cases of improvement, the auditor's report (A. B. S. Welch), financial and statistical statements (James Diggens, A. R. Douglas), report of the Commissioners in Lunacy (A. H. Trevor, E. Marriott Cooke) list of clergymen and ministers, presents received, census of imbecile or feeble-minded persons, 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 and other satellite homes and the pupils engaged in school lessons, basketmaking, joinery, tailoring etc.