Mentally Defective Children: Mr. Cove (Lab., Wellingborough) asked the President of the Board of Education the names of the members of the Special Committee he has set up to explore the provisions for mentally defective children … Lord Eustace Percy: The following is the list of the Committee which is inquiring into certain questions relating to mental deficiency among adults as well as children: Mr. Arthur H. Wood, C.B. (Chairman); Dr. R. H. Crowley (Vice-Chairman); Mr. C. Eaton; Mrs. Pinsent, C.B.E.; Miss Evelyn Fox; Miss Redfern; Professor Cyril Burt; Dr. F. C. Shrubsall; Dr. A. F. Tredgold; Dr. F. Douglas Turner, and Mr. N. D. Bosworth-Smith (Secretary).
[This list contains eight men but only three women, and there is no woman doctor among them.]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949