Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles of the Northern Counties, Lancaster : supplementary report, April 1876.

  • Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots & Imbeciles of the Northern Counties (Lancaster, England)
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1876
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    ROYAL ALBERT ASYLUM Supplementary Report. APEIL, 1876. It is considered desirable, chiefly with the view of sustaining and extending the interest in the Royal Albert Asylum which is so generally felt by the Local Committees and other active friends, to publish, from time to time, Supplementary Reports of the proceedings of the Institution, noting evidences of progress in the internal work or in financial matters. It is of essential importance that the Institution should be kept steadily and persistently before the public of the Seven Northern Counties ; and an excellent mode of ac¬ complishing this object is by just such an agency as these Reports will afford for supplying the most recent information about the Institution. Not the least valuable feature of the Reports will be the oppor tunity of using them for the interchange and consideration of sugges¬ tions affecting the benevolent work. Daring the last Half-Year the most important event in the history of the Royal Albert Asylum has been the holding of the General Annual Meeting at Sheffield on the 28th of October. The success of that gathering was largely due to the ability, energy, and munificent hospitality of the Chairman of the Local Committee, Mr. E. T. Mappin. In his earnest endeavours to serve the interests of the Asylum, Mr. Mappin had the cordial co-operation of Mr. S. Roberts, the Treasurer; the Rev. S. Earnshaw, M.A., a member of the Central and Local Committees ; Mr. R. E. Leader and Mr. Edward Birks, Honorary Secretaries : to all of whom the Central Committee have, by resolution, expressed their grateful obligations. Seldom has a more cordial or generous sympathy been manifested towards the Asylum than was evinced both at the meeting and at the subsequent Banquet. To Mr. Mappin solely the Central Committee are indebted for the Banquet, the expense of which was entirely defrayed by that gentleman. How