following lecture on “The Care of the Feeble Minded” was given on Thursday week by Mrs. Pinsent in the Lecture Hall Free Library at a meeting in connection with the National Society for the Care and Control of the Feeble Minded. At the outset of her address, Mrs. Pinsent said that in order to thoroughly understand the full extent of the harm caused by the neglect of the mentally defective, they must first consider the existing laws concerning defectives and ascertain how far they enable them to deal satisfactorily the question. … (long discussion of the issue) … Concluding, Mrs. Pinsent said that the Government were attempting to deal with the mentally defective through four different departments. First the Board of Education provided unsuitably education for the mentally defective children. That education did not render them self-supporting or self-standing citizens. … (continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949