Notes on the Magazines: … … “Nineteenth Century and After” … … Mrs. Hume Pinsent, in the same review points out that owing to the wording of the Act which deals with the education of defective children, 25,000 children, who sadly need special education cannot obtain it. They are imbeciles, but they could usefully be trained. This is the kind of mistake with arises when Parliamentary Bills are drafted too hastily and with an adequate consultation of experts. Mrs. Pinsent presses that Parliament should pass an Act for the “Care and Control of the Mentally Defective,” as suggested by the Royal Commission. “It is,” she writes, “grotesque folly to spend large sums of money on defectives up to the age of sixteen, and then to give them complete liberty.” It appears to outsiders an extraordinary thing that after all that has been urged over and over again by many people, the reform desired by Mrs. Pinsent should so long be delayed. … continues …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949