Punishing Inefficients: At a meeting of the Birmingham Trades Council on Saturday, Mrs. Hume Pinsent, in dealing with the problem of the feeble minded, pleaded for continuity of control. The nation might follow the good example of America and try to treat inefficients methodically and rationally by seeking to check the supply or go on blindly punishing the feeble-minded. If the country wished to suppress crime and drunkenness, it should direct its energies to (1) industrial training and (2) continuous control of the mentally defective.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949