Church Congress: Opening Meetings at Stoke: Labour and Religion: Sermon by the Bishop of London: The Church Congress which is meeting this week in the Potteries began its settings at Stoke on Trent yesterday … … (continues) … … At a sectional meeting in the Fenton Town Hall there was a discussion of one of the Poor law problems, namely the treatment of the feeble minded. The Dean of St. Paul’s (Dr. Inge) said Parliament ought to embody in legislation the Royal Commission’s proposal for the segregation of the mentally deficient. The offspring of a single imbecile might in the third generation supply a dozen inmates of the jails, asylums, and penitentiaries. Industrial colonies were the best places for imbeciles. Mrs. Ellen F. Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded, spoke of their chaotic treatment under the Poor-law, and the need for extending the benefits conferred by our present lunacy laws to all persons suffering from mental defects or disease. …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949