Eugenics: Mrs. Pinsent and Feeble Minded: … The Need for Better Heredity: Mrs. Pinsent (Birmingham) traced the striking growth of altruistic feeling during the nineteenth century to the consequent development of the idea of social or corporate responsibility. … (continues) … Unless something could be done to secure a better heredity for the coming generations all the altruistic feelings we so rightly valued might tend to the perpetuation of the very condition of things we so rightly condemned … (continues at length) … At present we were encouraging the degenerate to perpetuate themselves at the expense of the desirable citizens who were rated and taxed to supply the degenerates with facilities for breeding (Loud and prolonged cheers). The Bishop of Ripon also spoke.
[see similar overview Leicester Daily Mercury: Thursday 29th September 1910]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949