Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): patients, mostly children, entertaining some seated adults in a small wooden hall. Photograph.

1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; image 15.3 x 30.5 cm

Kew. Middl. Australia. Collection <?>. 2 hours entertainment given by the patients before many leading men of Melbourne Lettering hand-written in ink on verso, continues in corner: "flash light"

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 39236i