Empire’s Doctors to Meet at Portsmouth: Programme Outlined: Within the next few days Portsmouth will be invaded by prominent doctors from all parts of the world … … The Section of Medical Sociology meets all day on Friday, July 27th. The subject for discussion is “Mental Deficiency in its Social Aspects — (a) education, (b) segregation, and (c) sterilisation.” The President of this Section is Dr. H. B. Brackenbury and one of the Vice-Presidents is the Right Hon. Sir Leslie Scott, K.C., H.P., Dr. William Potts, of Birmingham, and Mrs. Ellen Pinsent, of the Beard of Control, will open the discussion; Dr. Henry Devine, of Portsmouth, deal with segregation; Dr. C. Macfie Campbell, Director, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, U.S.A., will speak on “The Methods of Organisation for Supervision of Mental Defectives”; Dr. Joseph F. E. Prideaux. Headquarters Mental and Neurological Inspector, Ministry of Pensions, and Miss Evelyn Pox, Honorary Secretary of the Central Association for Mental Welfare, will deal with the educational aspect; Dr. W Norwood East, Senior Medical Officer, Brixton Prison, will discuss “incidence of Crime and Mental Defect; and Dr. A. R. Gibbons, of London, will speak on The Sterilisation of Mental Defectives.” Apparatus for menial tests and an exhibit of’ work done by mental deficients will be shown in the Pathological Museum, and a film illustrating the education of mentally defective children will be shown by Miss Evelyn Fox in the Exhibition on Friday afternoon. Members of the public who are especially interested in this subject may obtain invitations on request from one of the Honorary Secretaries, Dr. Arnold Lyndon, O.B.E., Grayshott. Hindhead, Surrey, and Dr. A. 11. Roberts, Commercial Road, Portsmouth.
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