Training the Feeble-Minded: A Year’s Work at the Midland Counties Institution: … … The report of Mrs. Pinsent, Commissioner of the Board of Control, stated it was evident a great effort was being made to improve the school. The hope was expressed that it would be found possible to increase the school hours, now too short, and to develop further useful hand and eye training which should have a definite relation to the particular work which each child might be able to do. The industries had necessarily suffered from shortage of material and instructors during the war, but the brush shop was doing extremely well.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949