The Asylum for Idiots: instituted October 27, 1847. Report, 1853.

  • Asylum for Idiots (Park House, Highgate, London and Essex Hall, Colchester, England)
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[1853]
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Credit: The Asylum for Idiots: instituted October 27, 1847. Report, 1853. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    11 presence, and by their benevolent efforts. Apart from other contributions, it is proposed that thirty gentlemen shall lay one hundred guineas each on the First Stone, and that two hundred ladies should lay purses of five guineas and upwards on the Stone, as part of the ceremony. Besides, the Board are very desirous that the Subscribers should regard the present period as critical in the history of the Charity. With a fixed intention to go forward in this work of mercy, they cannot disguise from themselves that they are coming under a great and unusual responsibility. If, on the day of laying the Stone, they shall be successful to their highest expectation, they will still require from ¿610,000 to ¿615,000 to complete their great object; and they require, therefore, the most resolved and earnest support of the benevolent public, to look to it with pleasure and confidence. Apart, therefore, from the effort of the day of the First Stone, they earnestly, yea, devoutly, ask for the strenuous and persevering aid of the friends of the poor Idiot. Much may be done by circulating the Appeals of the Charity; much by seeking New Subscribers ; much by dis-