The Care of the Feeble-Minded: Conference in Leicester: A conference was held in the Association Hall, yesterday, under the auspices of the National Association for the Feeble Minded. There was a numerous attendance of delegates from all parts of the country … (discussion) … Mrs. Hume Pinsent (Birmingham) spoke on “Compulsion versus Voluntary Methods” and discussed the difficulty of getting the mentally defective into colonies and keeping them there, when once they entered. She pointed out that there were at least sixty-six thousand mentally defective persons in urgent need of care, training, and control; and urged it should be the statutory duty of the local authority, assisted by a government grant, to obtain or provide suitable accommodation for the mentally defective in their districts … (discussion continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949