Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : twenty-ninth annual report.

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)
Date:
1893
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Credit: Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : twenty-ninth annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Asylum. But the Committee trust that in the coming year this deficiency may be more than compensated by the addition of new subscribers. Considering the population and wealth of the respective counties, there ought not to be much difficulty, with the active assistance of friends of the Asylum, in making a substantial addition to the amount of the Annual Subscriptions. Comparing the following table with the similar table given in last year’s Report, it will be seen that the Annual Subscriptions have thus declined: Lancashire, ^98 10s. iod.; Yorkshire, £62 5s. id.; Cheshire, £27 3s. gd. ; Cumberland, £12 6s od. ; Durham, £1 2s. 8d. ; Northumberland, £0 19s. od. Thanks to the ability and energy of the Westmorland Ladies’ Association, under the leadership of the Countess of Bective, President, and Miss Wakefield, Honorary Secretary, the Annual Subscrip¬ tions from that County have increased from ^238 15s. 8d. to £258 2s. id. The Committee regret to have again to refer to the very inadequate amount received from Northumberland, which contributes altogether only the small sum of £5j 19s. 6d. At each election of patients there are many eligible Northumberland candidates for admission, and the Committee have repeatedly called the attention of the Northumberland Committee to the Rule requiring the number of patients in the Asylum from any of the Associated Counties to be proportionate to the amount of the contributions from that county. The earnest and liberal support which the Royal Albert Asylum has always received from the adjoining County of Durham—the organisation of whose Ladies’ Association embraces every town and village—ought to have a stimulating influence. Reference may also be made to the fact that last year’s Donations included the sum of ^1,000 from Mrs. Bindloss, of Kendal and Milnthorpe ; and in comparing the Donations for the two years this should be taken into account. Although uncertain in amount, donations have always been a very valuable item in the income of the Main¬ tenance Fund. Early in the year the handsome donation of £200 was contributed to the Sustentation Fund by Mr. Thomas Radcliffe, of Blackburn. Northumber¬ land. Donations.