The Asylum for Idiots: instituted October 27, 1847. Report, 1854.

  • Asylum for Idiots (Park House, Highgate, London and Essex Hall, Colchester, England)
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[1854]
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Credit: The Asylum for Idiots: instituted October 27, 1847. Report, 1854. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    made it the Infirmary, and have drawn off the Invalids to it for separate accommodation—an arrangement very much to their comfort and to the rest of the family. With the exception of the Infirmary cases, amounting to from thirty to forty, the rest of the family may be understood to he variously engaged, as particularly stated in the last Report. The schools for instruction and physical ex ercise are improved in method and attainment. Essex Hall has been enlarged; and especially a set of good workshops has been erected, which has given more space and vigour to the Classes. There are now in the male depart ment the following classes:—Gardeners, Mat- makers, Tailors, Shoemakers, Netters, Plaiters, Carpenters, and Basketmakers. Two of the classes are fresh; and all of them are much im proved. As an example, it may he stated that the Tailors have made eighty-seven pair of Trowsers; that the Basketmakers have made for the family fifty-five baskets ; that the Shoe makers have made twenty-two pair of slippers; and that the Mat-makers have executed work