Today’s Proceedings at Cambridge: The Population Question: At the Church Congress at Cambridge, today, in a discussion on social responsibility with reference to the feeble-minded, Dr. G. Shuttleworth, London, advocated more schools for mentally defective children, the segregation in industrial colonies of feeble-minded adults and measures to prevent illegitimacy amongst them. Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission on the care of the feeble-minded, pointing out that the undesirable classes of the population were fast increasing, argued that the desirable and efficient members of society must be encouraged to have larger families, and that there should be direct State encouragement in reproduction of the better stocks …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949