Care of the Feeble Minded: Second Day’s Conference: Yesterday the Conference resumed, at the Guildhall, London, of the National Association of the Care of the Feeble-Minded and of the National Union of Special Schools … (discussion of papers) … Mrs. Hume Pinsent, President of the Special Schools, Birmingham, read a paper upon ”After Care in Birmingham.” She said the work had been carried out in Birmingham for four years, yet the period had not been long enough to come to definite and absolute conclusions. The influence brought to bear upon the feeble-minded must be continuous to be useful and persevering because the parents were usually drunken, or worse, and probably feebleminded themselves. Boys, who were able to work and earned wages, would in a colony earn much higher wages by remunerative labour. Other papers were read and discussed on special aspects of the question.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949