Eastbourne: … At the Grove Hall on Monday evening, Mrs. Hume Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission delivered an interesting lecture on the care and control of the feeble-minded … (continues) …
(also) … THE FEEBLE-MINDED: Lecturing before an interested audience at the Brighton Library on Tuesday evening, on “The Care and Control of the Feeble-minded.” Mrs. Hume Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission, went through the several recommendations made by the Commission, and urged, by charts and other examples from the evidence, the necessity for State control of the feeble-minded. She advocated a conferring of further powers upon the present Lunacy Commissioners to enable them to deal not only with certified lunatics but with feeble-minded persons and contended that it was no part of the proper duties of the Education Committee, or Board of Guardians, to have so serious a responsibility imposed upon them as was involved in the proper treatment of feeble-minded persons.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949