The Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster : a training institution for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland forty-fifth annual report.

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, Englanc)
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1909
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Credit: The Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster : a training institution for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland forty-fifth annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t H E ROYAL ALBERT ASYLUM, LANCASTER: A TRAINING INSTITUTION FOR THE FEEBLE-MINDED BELONGING TO Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland. FORTY FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 1 God help the Imbecile ! more dark their lot Than dumb, or deaf, the cripple, or the blind : The closed soul-vision theirs, the blighted mind ; Babes though full-grown ; the page of life a blot. Yet say, shall their affliction be abhorred ? Their need o’erlooked ? shall Charity pass by, Leave them to perish with averted eye ? Forbid, the love that burns to serve her Lord! ’ OFFICES: THE ROYAL ALBERT ASYLUM, LANCASTER ; 9, ALBERT SQUARE, MANCHESTER ; 19, COMMERCE CHAMBERS, LORD STREET, LIVERPOOL Medical Superintendent: Dr. Archibald R. Douglas. Secretary : Mr. Samuel Keir. SEPTEMBER, 1909.