Church Congress: … Stoke on Trent … (detailed description) … … Poor Law Problems … … Mrs. Pinsent’s paper dealt with the most distressing side of it. She urged the necessity of placing the control and care of the mentally defective in the hands of the community. … … Evidence was given before the Royal Commission of which Mrs. Pinsent a member on the question of a noisy dement who was sleeping in the bed to a patient with acute pneumonia. In another workhouse were found idiots, Imbeciles, and the feeble-minded of all ages, from fourteen to ninety, lying in wards together. Perhaps the gravest aspect of the present position is that of the productivity of the unfit. Mrs. Pinsent gave startling figures on this point.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949