The Problem of the Feeble-Minded: The heightened interest which is everywhere being taken in social problems was shown by yesterday’s influential meeting at Exeter to discuss so apparently “dry” and uninviting a topic as the care and control of the feeble-minded. A movement is on foot, as our readers are aware, to group the five southwestern Counties – Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset and Wilts – into one area and to form an Association which would take in hand systematically the care and control of this unfortunate class of the population … Mrs. Hume Pinsent, who was a member of the Royal Commission on the Feeble-Minded, and who, at Bristol and other meetings, has shown herself an “expert” on the whole problem, explained how lamentably defective the present provisions of the law are with regard to the too-numerous souls who, while they are not certified lunatics, yet are sadly below the normal in mind. … (discussion continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949