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-fifth annual report.

Annual report. 1888

Lancaster ; Manchester : Royal Albert Asylum, 1889.

76 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Dated October, 1889

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 an illustration of the asylum, a list of legacies, a prospectus (Winmarleigh, John T. Hibbert, Edward Lawrence, Andrew Fairburn, James Diggens), list of trustees, presidents, officers and central committee members, a report of the general annual meeting at Liverpool on 15 October 1889, the report of the central committee (Winmarleigh, chairman), the report of the medical superintendent (G. E. Shuttleworth), cases of improvement, the auditor's report (William G. Welch), financial and statistical statements (James Diggens, G.E. Shuttleworth), a list of clergymen and ministers, presents received, census of idiots and imbeciles a list of places that inmates came from and a short article about Brunton House,Scotforth, Lancaster - the asylum's home for "special private pupils", illustrated with 2 views.

Copy 1 Note: Bound with reports covering 1889-90 to 1895-96 (published 1890-96)