National Association for Feeble Minded Children at Bromley: A public meeting was held in the Lecture Hall of the Bromley Public Library on 24th, under the auspices of an association recently formed in Bromley, which bears the name of the Bromley After-Care Association and is a branch of the National Association for the Feeble Minded. The chair was taken by the president of the association, the Rev. W. A. Carroll, and the principal speaker was Mrs. Hume Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble Minded. … Mrs. Hume Pinsent then addressed the meeting. That lady said she wanted that afternoon to speak upon two points that were of vital interest to all who were studying the problem of mental defect. The first was the foundation by the National Association of a farm colony for the feeble minded; and the second, the urgent need of legislation on the lines of the Report of the Royal Commission. … (continues at length) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949