Municipal Corporations Association: Mrs. Pinsent’s Motion: The Lord Mayor London opened this morning the annual meeting of the Association of Municipal Corporations at the Guildhall. Mrs. Pinsent (Birmingham), the first lady to attend the meetings of the Association delegate, moved a resolution calling for the introduction of legislation to deal with the feeble-minded. She declared that at least 10 percent of the “ins and outs” in the prisons, short sentence prisoners, were feeble-minded, and she thought that prison detention was both an inhuman and expensive method dealing with them. The motion was carried unanimously.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949