Perpetuation of the Unfit: … (detailed review of speech) … Perhaps the most striking speech uttered at the Church Congress this week was that of Mrs. Pinsent, of the Birmingham Education Committee, on the important question of the treatment of the mentally defective. … continues … Mrs. Pinsent had the courage to go directly to the root of the matter, and to urge that steps should be taken to apply the only real remedy. These degenerates fill our gaols, our workhouses, our asylums for the insane and our armies of peripatetic mendicants and vagrants. … … Mrs. Pinsent points out, these poor children grow up and become parents of offspring inheriting the fatal taint, who will also be a burden on the community … … Mrs. Pinsent urges that the care of the feeble-minded children should be conducted through life, and that the sexes should be kept apart permanently …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949