Fifty-first annual report : for the year ending December 31st, 1909 / Eastern Counties' Asylum for Idiots, Imbeciles and the Feeble-Minded residing in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridge.

Eastern Counties Asylum for Idiots, Imbeciles and the Feeble-Minded (Colchester, England)

Date:: 1910

Credit: Fifty-first annual report : for the year ending December 31st, 1909 / Eastern Counties' Asylum for Idiots, Imbeciles and the Feeble-Minded residing in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$' v ,r• REPORT. To be presented to the Fifty-first Annual Meeting to be ; ■ wv:v ';;'i .s . L';;;y: ■-■m1 ”V 0-*- Vw, y v:!' pv ,y held at the Town Hall# Brentwood# on Thursday* 23rd June# 1910# k±s A ■-*: ii'V y nt qh V . - \ if 1; 1, EDWARD T. MASH1TER, Esq., 1 • silflpjiS- in T' -v <■ i. j.;?- ;■ \j< ■.Chair* ©fell I11 presenting their Fifty-first Annual Report the Board of Diiectors are glad to be able to give a satisfactory account of the work of the Institution during the past year. With the many new Objects for which charitable support is sought, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep the claims of the older Institutions successfully before the Public, yet this difficulty has happily been surmounted, and the Board desire gratefully to acknowledge the following amounts which have been received during the year : £ s. d. For Ordinary Purposes ... ... 11,972 o 2 For Enlargement Fund ... ... 20 10 o For New Hospital ... ... _ / 1.363 17 7 For Endowment Fund ... ... 300 1 6 For Peckover Schools ... ... 1,000 o o For Peckover Schools Repairs Account 131 18 1 Amounts received. 14,788 7 4 The Income for Ordinary Purposes has been about the same as in the previous year, and the average daily number in residence 336 against 326 in 1908. Owing however to the saving effected in the Expenditure, the average weekly cost has Average^weekiy been reduced from i2/n| to 12/4! per head. In referring to the items of Income received, the first Ladies’ place must naturally be given to the Collection organized and Associatlon carried through by the Members of the Ladies’ Association, the result of which is again very gratifying. It has not been easy to obtain subscriptions during the past year, and notwith¬ standing the fact that many Charities have suffered in consequence, the Ladies’ total amounts to ^3,314 5s. od., being only slightly less than in the previous year. The Board most heartily congratulate the Vice-Patroness (Geraldine, Marchioness of Bristol) and the Ladies associated with her upon the admirable manner in which the Collections have$