Problem of Feeble-Minded: The Church Congress on Wednesday discussed social responsibility with reference to the feeble-minded. Dr. G. Shuttleworth advocated more special schools for mentally defective children, the segregation in industrial colonies of feeble-minded adults and measures to prevent illegitimacy among them. Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission on the Care of the Feeble-minded, pointed out that the undesirable classes of the population were fast increasing, and argued that the desirable and efficient members of society must be encouraged to have larger families, and that there should be direct state encouragement to the reproducing of the better stocks.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949