Weston Super Mare: … … Under the chairmanship of the Right Hon. Sir Edward Fry, G.C.B. a lecture was delivered at the Town Hall, on Thursday evening, by Mrs. Hume Pinsent (a member of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Mentally Defective), in support of the movement for procuring a scheme of State control on the lines laid down in the report of such Commission. Sir Edward, who was supported by members of various local representative bodies, delivered an interesting address, wherein demonstrated the inestimable national benefit which must attend State control of the mentally unsound, while Mrs. Hume Pinsent in her lecture, emphasised the irresponsibility and ineffectiveness of the present system, or, rather, lack of system.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949