Congress on Social Work: The international congress of Social Work and Services, State, Municipal and Voluntary, which is to be held at the University of London from May 30th to June 5th, should prove to be of considerable importance if those who take part in organising it include a sufficient number of women and men versed in the subjects with which it is to deal. The executive committee has at present two women members only – Lady Downes, late inspector of boarded out children under the Local Government Board, and member of the Central Poor Law Conference Committee, and Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Commissioner of the Board of Control under the Mental Deficiency Act – but doubtless other women will be invited to join as there are already nineteen men upon the committee … …
[see also Rochdale Observer: Saturday 7th February 1914]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949