Municipal Corporations: Need of Legislation to Deal with the Feeble-Minded: At the annual meeting in London yesterday of the Association of Municipal Corporations Mrs. Pinsent (Birmingham), the first lady to attend the meetings of the association as a delegate, moved a resolution calling for the introduction of legislation to deal with the feeble-minded. There were in the country, she said, excluding certified lunatics, some 150,000 mentally defective persons. Of these, 45,000 to 50,000 were children and three quarters of these were left without any special care, training, or control. A quarter to a fifth of the paupers in the country were feeble-minded. The Town Clerk of Leeds seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously … (continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949