Royal Albert Asylum for the education and training of idiots & imbeciles belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : eighth annual report.

Annual report. 1871

Lancaster : Royal Albert Asylum, 1872.

31 pages ; 21 cm

Following the first 2 annual reports (January and December 1866), the Northern Counties' Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles was called the Royal Albert Asylum. Reports for 1866-7, 1867-8, 1868-9, 1869-70 and 1870-71 largely concern the construction of the hospital and its finance. The first admissions were in December 1871

Consists of a list of presidents, trustees, officers and committee members, a report of the general meeting at Manchester, 25 September 1872, the report of the central committee including the report of the Commissioners in Lunacy (R. W. Lutwidge and Robert Nairne), the medical superintendent's report (G. E. Shuttleworth), the auditors' report (Rees, White & Co.), a financial statement, and a list of clergymen and ministers.