Church Congress and the Birth Rate: the Problem of the Feeble-Minded: At the Church Congress at Cambridge a discussion took place yesterday on social responsibility with reference to the feeble minded. Dr. Shuttleworth, London, 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 propagation were fast increasing, 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 preproduction of the better stocks. … (continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949