IDIOTS AND IMBECILES: Royal Commission Appointed: It is officially announced that the King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has appointed a Royal Commission to consider the existing methods of dealing with idiots and epileptics, and with imbecile, feeble-minded, defective persons not certified under (he Lunacy Lams; and, in view of the hardship or danger resulting to such persons and the community from insufficient provision for their care, training, and control, to report the amendments in the law or other measures which should be adopted in the matter, due regard being had to the expense to be had in any such proposals, and the best means of securing economy therein. The commission is constituted follows: The Marquis of Bath (chairman); Mr. William Patrick Byrne, C.B.; Mr. Charles Hob house, M.P., Mr. Frederick Needham, M.D; Mr. Henry David Greene, K.C., M.P.; Mr. Charles E. M. Chadwyck Healey, K.C.; Rev. Harold Nelson Burden; Mr. Willoughby; H. Dickinson; Mr. Charles Stewart Loch, and Mrs. Pinsent.
[See also Bradford Daily Telegraph: Thursday 1st September 1904]
[see also Staffordshire Sentinel: Thursday 1st September 1904]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949