Care of the Feeble-Minded: Discussion at a Conference in London: In the absence of Lord Radnor, Lord Shuttleworth presided at Denison House yesterday, at a conference of persons interested in the care and control of the feeble-minded. Dr. H. B. Deakin remarked that the Royal Commissioners were practically in their conviction that a single central authority to supervise any form of administration dealing with the care and control of the mentally defective was absolutely indispensable, and Mrs. Hume Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission, said that the injustice and even cruelty caused by the inefficient methods of the four authorities dealing with the feebleminded was really beyond description … (continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949