The care of the Feeble Minded: The annual meeting of the St. Pancras Women’s Local Government Association was held on Tuesday evening in the Y.M.C.A. Hall, Camden Road … A most interesting lecture with diagrams, was given by Mrs. Pinsent on “The care of the feeble minded” Mrs. Pinsent drew particular attention to the enormous cost to the nation of the present inadequate provision of Government for care of the feeble minded, and the danger to the future welfare of the country by allowing them to produce large families, the members of which were also invariably feeble-minded, with criminal tendencies … (continues at length) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949