July Magazine … “The Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded” is Mrs. Hume Pinsent’s theme in “The Nineteenth Century”. A member of the recent Royal Commission, the writer pleads eloquently for control of the mentally defective by one single authority. Power of permanent detention and continuity of control would, she says, materially reduce crime, drunkenness, prostitution, and disease.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949