The Feeble Minded: Brighton Lecture on their Cure: A lecture was delivered by Mrs. Hume Pinsent at the Public Library on Tuesday morning, on the subject of “The Care and Control… of the Feeble-minded.” … … She went through the several recommendations made by the Royal Commission, and urged by charts, and other examples from the evidence; the necessity: for State control of the feeble-winded. 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. At the close of the lecture a unanimous vote of thanks was accorded to Mrs. Pinsent on the motion of Councillor Mellor, J.P., seconded by V. C. Bartlett.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949