The Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster
Subtitle: a training institution for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : fortieth annual report
Contributors: Diggens, James; Foster, William H.; Hibbert, John T.; Lawrence, Edward; Douglas, A. R.; Welch, A. B. S.
Publisher: Royal Albert Asylum
Published: 1904
Place of publication: Lancaster; Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Hospital Design and Construction; Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England); Psychiatric Hospitals; Brunton House (Lancaster, England)
Work titles: Annual report
Notes: Dated October 1904.

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 Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 18 October 1904, 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 the new Herbert Storey Industrial Schools and Workshops, Brunton House - the asylum's home for "special private pupils", photographs of the Asylum, its grounds and other satellite homes and the pupils engaged in school lessons, basketmaking, joinery, tailoring etc.

Copy 1 Note: Bound with reports covering 1903-04 to 1908-09 (published 1904-09)