Unfit Parents: Sheffield Lecture on the Care of Defectives: Breeding Criminals: The appalling folly and social tragedy of England’s neglect of the feeble-minded was strikingly illustrated in a lectured delivered in Sheffield last night by Mrs. Hume Pinsent of Birmingham. Her subject was the “Report of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded.” The most instructive part of the lecture and certainly the most convincing was furnished by a series of diagrams which succinctly illustrated the consequences of defectives becoming parents. Mrs. Pinsent, who was a member of the Commission named sought to emphasize the growing conviction that the root of many of the difficulties social workers and public authorities have to deal with is the disconnected and incomplete powers for dealing with feeble-minded persons … continues at length … Mrs. Pinsent strongly advocated the creation of one central authority, vested with powers of compulsory detention, to deal solely with defectives so that unity and continuity of control, as compared with the present chaotic system might be exercised over them from the cradle to the grave, if necessary. …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949