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Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster

1898; BMJ; Volume: 2; Issue: 1971 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.2.1971.1093

0959-8138

Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health

This is a training school for feeble-minded children; and it admits free patients, between the ages of six and fifteen, whose friends are proved to be unable to meet the lowest payments, and who belong to the counties of Lancashire, Yorkshiie, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, and Northumberland.These children are elected by the sub- scribers for a stated number of years, while paying cases are admitted without election at charges varying according to attendant circumstances.Last autumn the asylum issued its forty-second annual report, from which we learn that during the thirty-six years ending in 1906, it had admitted 2,663 children; that 396 of these were discharged much improved ; 532 moder-