Mrs. Pinsent in moving the adoption of the report of the Special Schools Sub-committee referred to the report shortly to be issued by the Royal Commission on the Care of feeble-minded Children. She spoke of the excellent services of the After-care Sub-committee and remarked that the magnitude of that voluntary work might be gathered when she said that there were 535 individual cases, each of which was visited three times a year. Statistics showed that very few of these were capable of remunerative work, and when they were, the amounts received were very low, the average being 6s 1d per week. The Chairman observed that the work done by the After-care Committee was extremely arduous and somewhat discouraging. They would all wait with interest for the report of the Royal Commission referred to by Mrs. Pinsent, though he did not suppose they would read the whole of it. No doubt they would be content with the eighty-three conclusions. The report was approved. …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949