The Treatment of Idiots: Royal Commission Appointed: The King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has been pleased to appoint a Royal Commission to consider the existing methods of dealing with idiots and epileptics, and with imbecile, feeble-minded or defective persons not certified under the lunacy laws, and in view of the hardship or danger resulting to such persons and the community from insufficient provision for their care, training, and control, to report as to the amendments in the law or other measures which should be adopted in the matter, due regard being had to the expense involved in any such proposals, and to the best means of securing economy therein and that the Commission be constituted as follows: The Marquis of Bath (chairman), William Patrick Byrne, Charles Hobhouse, Frederick Needham, Henry David Greene, Charles Edward Heley, Chadwyck Healey, the Rev. Harold Nelson Burden, Willoughby Hyett Dickinson, Charles Steward Loch and Mrs. Pinsent.
[see also Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette: Thursday 1st September 1904 and Sheffield Daily Telegraph: Thursday 1st September 1904 and others]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949