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

Annual report. 1902

Lancaster ; Manchester : Royal Albert Asylum, 1903.

102 pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Dated September 1903

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 (John T. Hibbert, Edward Lawrence, William H. Foster, James Diggens), list of trustees, presidents, officers and central committee members, a report of the general annual meeting at the asylum on 23 September 1903, the report of the central committee (John T. Hibbert, chairman), the report of the principal (James Diggens), the report of the medical officer (Archibald R. Douglas), cases of improvement, the auditor's report (A. B. S. Welch), financial and statistical statements (James Diggens, A. R. Douglas), list of clergymen and ministers, presents received, census of idiots and imbeciles, a list of places that inmates came from, a short article about Brunton House, Scotforth, Lancaster - the asylum's home for "special private pupils", illustrated with 2 views, illustrations of the Ashton wing of the Royal Albert Asylum, the Storey Home for Feeble-Minded Girls and the pupils engaged in basketmaking, joinery, tailoring etc.