Local Enquiry by Control Board Committee: The Board of Control (Liquor Traffic) have appointed a Special Committee to enquire into the alleged excessive drinking of alcohol among women in Birmingham. The following constitute the Committee: Sir George Newman, M.D. (chairman), Miss E. Macadam, Miss H. Martindale, Mrs. Hume Pinsent … … Miss Martindale is the Home Office lady Inspector of Factories for the Birmingham District. Mrs. Hume Pinsent, the other member of the committee, is well known in Birmingham, having been a member of the City Council and the Education Committee. Her work on behalf of the epileptic and feeble-minded was officially recognised in 1904, when she was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded.
[see similar Birmingham Daily Mail, Wednesday 19th July 1916 and Evening Despatch: Thursday 13th July 1916]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949