A Deserving Cause: It is sometime since a meeting was held locally on behalf of the mentally defective, but it will be seen from our advertising columns that the cause is to be publicly advocated at St. James’s Hall on the afternoon of Friday the 12th inst. Miss Mellena Heale is taking a prominent part in the movement, and a long list of those who have promised their patronage is here made. Dr. J. Elsdale Molson is announced to preside, and the promoters are to be congratulated upon the fact that they have secured the presence of one so well qualified to deal with the subject under discussion as Mrs. Hume Pinsent who was a member of the Royal Commission of the Care and Control of the Mentally Defective:
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949