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
Subtitle: twenty-third annual report
Contributors: Winmarleigh, John Wilson-Patten, Baron, 1802-1892; Diggens, James; Fairburn, Andrew; Hibbert, John T.; Lawrence, Edward; Shuttleworth, G. E.; Welch, William G.
Publisher: Royal Albert Asylum
Published: 1887
Place of publication: Lancaster; Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Hospital Design and Construction; Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England); Psychiatric Hospitals; Brunton House (Lancaster, England)
Work titles: Annual report
Notes: Dated December, 1887.

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 Chester on 8 December 1887, 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 the asylum's recent acquisition of Brunton House, Lancaster, illustrated with 2 views.

Bound with reports covering 1879-88 (published 1880-88)