Probing Objections: Official Inquiry into the Holt Street Scheme: The inquiry ordered by the Board of Education into the objections raised to the site in Holt Street, Birmingham, for a school for crippled and feeble-minded children, took place yesterday morning at the Education Offices, Edmund Street: … … Points for the Inspector: Later in the morning, at the conference in Edmund Street, Dr. Eicholz took the chair, and round the table were Mr. Green, H.M. Inspector of Schools for the district, Mr. G. Kenrick, Chairman of the education Committee, Dr. Simon, the committee’s medical officer, Mr. Charles, Leedham-Green, of the Children’s Hospital, Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Mr. Sturge, Mr. Bethune Baker, Mr. J. A. Palmer, secretary to the committee, the Rev. T. J. Bass, Mr. Gocher and Mr. Pentland. The conference lasted an hour and a half and all those present spoke … (concerns about T.B. infections and poor air quality) … Unless the actions of the Board of Education, to whom Dr. Eicholz will report, makes it unnecessary, we are told it is in contemplation that a resolution will be moved by a prominent member of the city council at the July meeting rescinding what has already been done in the matter. It is further proposed to hold a town’s meeting in the Town Hall unless another site is decided upon.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949