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

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)
Date:
1905
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    support of the people of the Liverpool district and of the Northern Countries generally. He added that out of 630 inmates 55 belonged to Liverpool, and expressed regret at learning that the amount received from all sources towards the maintenance of these 55 cases was very inadequate for the purpose, The meeting was also addressed by the Right Hon. Sir John T. Hibbert, K.C.B., who was supported by the following members of the Central Committee :—Mr. G. D. Killey (Liverpool), and Mr. W. G. Welch and Mr, Robert Mansergh (Lancaster). Among others who addressed the meeting were Sir Edward Russell, Sir Robert Hampson, and Dr. F. F, German. The Central Committee was furthermore represented by the Rev. T. R. Finch (Preston), Mr. F. W. Crewdson (Kendal), and Mr. W. I. R. Crowder (Carlisle). The following gentlemen were also present:—Rev. J. T. Avent, Rev. R. Hawley Sharpe, Dr. Simpson, Mr. T. C. Edmondson, Mr. W. Adamson, Mr. W. Evans, Mr. T. Mellor, and Mr. T. Morris. Several ladies connected with the Liverpool Ladies’ Association attended. The Central Com¬ mittee gratefully acknowledge the valuable assistance of Mr. G. D. Killey, Local Treasurer, in promoting the meeting, but it was a matter for much regret that they could not have the powerful support of Sir Edward Lawrence, the Chairman of the Local Committee, who was at that time absent in Teneriffe. Prior to the meeting, the Lord Mayor kindly provided luncheon for a number of the gentlemen concerned, the Lord Bishop of Liverpool also being present. In the course of his address at this meeting, Sir John Hibbert gave the following interesting particulars with respect to the results of the system of training carried out in the Institution: All the election cases sent to the Royal Albert Asylum were there for a period of seven years’ training. Some were elected, others were paid for, and part payment was made for others. Of the 630 patients in the Asylum 260 were elected. The admission of a child to the Institution was a double blessing ; it is a blessing to the patient, because a training was given which would be of inestimable use to the boy or girl in after life, and it was a boon to the home whence the child came. The inmates were trained partly in school, and partly in industrial occupations. The boys were taught joinery, wood-carving, shoemaking, tailoring, brush-making, mat-making, printing and book-binding, basket-making, chair-mending, baking, gardening, and farm-work. The whole of the Wing recently erected by Lord Ashton was equipped with furniture made in their work¬ shops. There also were made all the shoes used by the inmates of the Asylum, and in their bakery they baked the bread, The vegetables, fruit, The Right Hon Sir John T Hibbert, K.C B.