Decay of Race: Church Congress and the Declining Birth Rate: The Church Congress at Cambridge disused today 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 measure to prevent illegitimacy among them. Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission on the care of the feebleminded, 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 large families and that there should be direct State encouragement to the reproduction of better stocks … (continues) …
[see also Nottingham Evening Post: Wednesday 28th September 1910]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949