Problem of Mentally Defective Children: Important Report: Mrs. Hume Pinsent on Need of New Legislation: The Lord Mayor (Ald. G. H. Kenrick) presided at a meeting of the Birmingham Education Committee held at the Parish Offices, Edmund Street yesterday afternoon. … … The Special Schools After-care Sub-Committee submitted their annual report. This sub-committee was formed in May 1901, with the object of keeping a record of the subsequent history of children who left the special classes for defectives and assisting them, as far as possible to find work … detailed review of findings and report … … … The Lord Mayor said he did not think they could do more at present than press upon the Government the necessity for taking action … … He pointed out that they had evidence showing that there had been a great deal of good work done. He took a larger view of the matter, for it seemed to him that, in order to obtain what Mrs. Pinsent had in view, and what they all had in view, was the better ultimate treatment of the whole class … … In reply, Mrs. Pinsent said that the sum asked for in the report of the Royal Commission to deal adequately with all the mentally defective was something like £500,000 a year. No doubt that would be an increase, but the mentally defective would be dealt with on sensible lines whereas now they were spending vast sums of money and doing practically no good. The report was adopted.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949