Fight with Impurity: Diving Mandate for Rescue Work: … The spirit which dictated Hood’s noble poem was the spirit which dominated the public meeting held in the Town Hall Leamington, on Friday night when, with Dr. Philip Hicks in the chair the case for Rescue Work and the local Girls’ Shelter (Murray House, Church Street) was advocated with all the forcefulness and earnestness merited on behalf of so grand a cause … (description of economic and social condition of poor girls and young mothers) … that one of the principal causes leading to immorality was not only poverty but physical and mental deterioration. When the Mental Deficiency Bill was passing through the House of Commons they had in the tables, furnished by that most devoted worker, Mrs. Pinsent (applause) some revelations as to the fecundity of mentally defective women. Take the cases of a single woman under 30 years of age who had six illegitimate children; of one under 27 who had five … (continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949