Prudhoe Colony: Decision Against Joint Control: Deadlock Reached: It was decided at today’s conference at Newcastle of local authorities responsible for the care of mental defectives in Northumberland and Durham that it was not desirable that there should be joint control of Prudhoe Hall Colony by the County Councils and Board of Guardians, as suggested by the Joint Poor Law Committee, which at present administers the institution. … … The conference was presided over by Sir F. J. Willis, C.B., Chairman of the Board of Control, and he was accompanied by Mrs. Pinsent, a Commissioner of the Board and one of the members of the Royal Commission on Mengal Defectives …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949