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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Finances. o' its being used for the quarantining of new patients, thereby leading to great delay and inconvenience in arranging for the reception of candidates who have either been elected or passed by the Committee for admission upon payment. Donations to enable the erection of the Reception House to be proceeded with would be gratefully received by the Committee, as the com¬ pletion of the sanitary alterations, the provision of external fire-escape staircases, the renovation of the Laundry machinery, the asphalting of the Boys’ Playground, the gravelling of the Girls’ Playground, with other urgent improvements, have greatly diminished the funds available for such purposes. Generally with regard to its finances, the position of the Institution cannot be regarded as otherwise than satisfactory. The total receipts from all sources during the year (omitting Farm and Garden items) have been a little less than those for the previous twelve months, having fallen from ^£26,731 13s. 4d. to ,£26,451 3s. 3d., but this diminution is accounted for by the decrease in the receipts from legacies, which naturally fluctuate from year to year. Last year they were ,£2,700 and this year £^1,945. These legacies, with £1,050 received for the purchase of a life interest for a patient who had already been in the Institution for over seven years, bring the receipts on Sustentation Fund Account to £2,995 as compared with £4,050. The Estate and Buildings Fund Account has been credited with interest to the amount of £36 is. 4d. The Maintenance Account gives a more stable criterion by which to judge of the financial condition of the Institution, and this year’s total of £23,658 12s. rod. (which includes £238 10s. nd. for produce sold) shows a substantial advance upon the ^£22,812 2s. 9d. received last year. There is a slight increase in the amount of annual subscriptions, the total this year having risen from £4,081 13s. 7d. to £4,134 9s. 2d. The payments from patients have increased from £11,993 15s. 6d. to £12,328 5s. 7d., thus keeping pace with the advance in the average number of patients resident in the Institution ; and the interest on investments has risen from £5,541 is. iod. to £5,576 8s. 4d. Donations have advanced from £345 iis. 5d. to £741 6s. 3d.