Birmingham Education Committee … … In moving the adoption of the report of the Special Schools Sub-committee, Mrs. Pinsent quoted the statistics to show that out of 308 feeble-minded persons who left school, only 19.8 percent were earning wages at all, and only 3.9 percent were earning as much as 10s a week. The sub-committee therefore after seven years experience with defectives endorsed the opinion previously expressed that for a large percentage of the feeble-minded permanent provision was necessary. Mrs. Pinsent said, in view of this they must all recognise that for a large — of the defective care and protection would be necessary, not only during their period of training but during their whole lives. … …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949