Night Asylum for the Destitute and Houseless Poor

Rare bound volume containing the first (1839, 33 pages) and second (1840, 26 pages) annual reports of the Manchester Night Asylum for the Destitute and Houseless Poor. Printed by Cave and Sever, Manchester. Includes plan of the asylum, detailed statistics, and proceedings from early meetings of one of Britain’s first organized shelters for the homeless. A significant document of early Victorian social welfare reform and industrial-era poverty in Manchester. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering. Moderate wear consistent with age; pages clean and legible.

Title: The First and Second Annual Reports of the Manchester Night Asylum for the Destitute and Houseless Poor

Years Covered: 1838–1839 (First Report, published 1839) and 1839–1840 (Second Report, published 1840)
Printer: Cave and Sever, Pool Fold, Manchester
Contents:

• Details of operations, donations, and expenditures

• A  full-page plan of the asylum 

• Statistical tables on admissions and demographics

• Proceedings of annual meetings

• Bound in original cloth boards with gilt title