Tag: GRO0245

The Treatment of Idiots and Epileptics: We have received from the Home Secretary: – The King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, had been pleased to appoint a Royal Commission to consider the existing methods of dealing with idiots and epileptics and with imbecile, feeble-minded or defective persons not certified under the Lunacy Laws; … (continues) … And that the Commission to be constituted as follows, namely:  – … (list includes) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

The Treatment of Idiots: Royal Commission Appointed: The King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has been pleased to appoint a Royal Commission to consider the existing methods of dealing with idiots and epileptics, and with imbecile, feeble-minded or defective persons not certified under the lunacy laws, and in view of the hardship or danger resulting to such persons and the community from insufficient provision for their care, training, and control, to report as to the amendments in the law or other measures which should be adopted in the matter, due regard being had to the expense involved in any such proposals, and to the best means of securing economy therein and that the Commission be constituted as follows: The Marquis of Bath (chairman), William Patrick Byrne, Charles Hobhouse, Frederick Needham, Henry David Greene, Charles Edward Heley, Chadwyck Healey, the Rev. Harold Nelson Burden, Willoughby Hyett Dickinson, Charles Steward Loch and Mrs. Pinsent.

[see also Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette: Thursday 1^st September 1904 and Sheffield Daily Telegraph: Thursday 1^st September 1904 and others]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

The Care of the Feeble-minded: Royal Commission Appointed: The King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has been pleased to appoint a royal Commission … (Description of mandate and list of commissioners includes) … Mrs. Pinsent.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

IDIOTS AND IMBECILES: Royal Commission Appointed: It is officially announced that the King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has appointed a Royal Commission to consider the existing methods of dealing with idiots and epileptics, and with imbecile, feeble-minded, defective persons not certified under (he Lunacy Lams; and, in view of the hardship or danger resulting to such persons and the community from insufficient provision for their care, training, and control, to report the amendments in the law or other measures which should be adopted in the matter, due regard being had to the expense to be had in any such proposals, and the best means of securing economy therein. The commission is constituted follows: The Marquis of Bath (chairman); Mr. William Patrick Byrne, C.B.; Mr. Charles Hob house, M.P., Mr. Frederick Needham, M.D; Mr. Henry David Greene, K.C., M.P.; Mr. Charles E. M. Chadwyck Healey, K.C.; Rev. Harold Nelson Burden; Mr. Willoughby; H. Dickinson; Mr. Charles Stewart Loch, and Mrs. Pinsent.

[See also Bradford Daily Telegraph: Thursday 1^st September 1904]

[see also Staffordshire Sentinel: Thursday 1^st September 1904]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Idiots and Imbeciles: Royal Commission Appointed: It is officially announced that the King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has appointed a Royal Commission to consider the existing methods of dealing with idiots and epileptics, and with imbecile, feeble-minded or defective persons not certified under the Lunacy Laws; and, in view of the hardship or danger resulting to such persons and the community from insufficient provision for their care, training, and control, to report as to the amendments in the law of other measures which should be adopted in the matter, due regard being bad to the expense involved in any such proposals, and to the best means of securing economy therein. The commission is constituted as follows: The Marquis of Bath (chairman). Mr. William Patrick Byrne, C.B. Mr. Charles Hobhouse, M.P. Mr. Frederick Needham, M.D. Mr. Henry David Greene, K.C., M.P. Mr. Charles E. H. Chadwick-Healey, K.C. Rev. Harold Nelson Burden, Mr. Willoughby H. Dickinson. Mr. Charles Stewart Loch, and Mrs. Pinsent.

[see related: Birmingham Mail: Thursday 1^st September 1904 … includes … Mrs. Pinsent was appointed as a co-opted member of the Education Committee and has been chairman of the Special Schools Sub-Committee. No member of the committee has a more complete knowledge of the subject than Mrs. Pinsent as she has made the training of the mentally deficient a study for several years. …

[see similar Birmingham Mail: Thursday 1^st September 1904]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

The report of the Special Schools Sub-Committee, moved by Mrs. Pinsent, recommended the renting of the Old Meeting School, Bristol Street, for the purpose of a temporary special school for mentally defective children. It was proposed, said Mrs. Pinsent, to transfer the children from Rea Street to this centre. There were 35 children waiting for admission and before long it would probably be necessary to provide permanent accommodation in this neighbourhood. The Report was adopted.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Education Committee: … … The Holt Street Controversy: The pith of the afternoon’s business seemed to be contained in a recommendation of the sites and Buildings Sub-committee relating to the much-discussed Holt Street School. The Sub-Committee desired the Committee to rescind a minute authorising the preparation of the plans and estimates, and to rent a site at the junction of Legge Street, and extended portion of Corporation Street, for the proposed school for crippled children. … question belongs to the Estates Committee of the City Council. The Chairman moved the adoption of the recommendation on behalf of Mr. Bethune-Baker, chairman of the Sub-Committee, who was unavoidably absent. Mrs. Pinsent, taking up the cudgels on behalf of the Special Schools Committee, over which she presides, began with a caustic reference to “a great many things in the daily papers,” which she declared to have been “more picturesque than accurate.” The Sub-Committee, in its original inquiry had found that nearly all the defective children for whom accommodation was required lived within a mile or a mile and a quarter of the Holt Street site. It was imperative that children of this type should be provided with a school in the immediate neighbourhood of their homes, however beneficial the air of Harborne might be to their health. A large section of the public seemed to think that the Committee proposed to build a boarding school in Holt Street (a laugh). The idea was so extremely absurd that she wondered how it could have been entertained by persons who were not them-selves mentally deficient. The Sub-committee, Mrs. Pinsent urged, acted on a sound principle in selecting a site which was already in the possession of the Education Authority … (continues) … … 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Duty to the Blind: A new departure was suggested by the Higher Education Sub-Committee: Mr. Cary Gilson, who brought forward the matter, said it concerned the education of the blind children over sixteen. … … Questions were asked as to the selection of the children and Mrs. Pinsent explained that what would probably happen would be that the Blind Institutions would recommend certain children over 16 years of age who were deserving further education and of these, the sub-committee would select three. … … … Secondary School Extension: The Sites and Buildings Sub-committee recommended that, subject to the approval of the City Council, and the Board of Education, a site containing 1,522 square yards be purchased in George Street West, at a cost of £1 per yard, as a site for a school for mentally defective children … … In reply to a question, Mrs. Pinsent stated that the accommodation in the school for mentally defective children in George Street West would probably consist of five classrooms, which would take eighty or ninety children.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Probing Objections: Official Inquiry into the Holt Street Scheme: The inquiry ordered by the Board of Education into the objections raised to the site in Holt Street, Birmingham, for a school for crippled and feeble-minded children, took place yesterday morning at the Education Offices, Edmund Street: … … Points for the Inspector: Later in the morning, at the conference in Edmund Street, Dr. Eicholz took the chair, and round the table were Mr. Green, H.M. Inspector of Schools for the district, Mr. G. Kenrick, Chairman of the education Committee, Dr. Simon, the committee’s medical officer, Mr. Charles, Leedham-Green, of the Children’s Hospital, Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Mr. Sturge, Mr. Bethune Baker, Mr. J. A. Palmer, secretary to the committee, the Rev. T. J. Bass, Mr. Gocher and Mr. Pentland. The conference lasted an hour and a half and all those present spoke … (concerns about T.B. infections and poor air quality) …   Unless the actions of the Board of Education, to whom Dr. Eicholz will report, makes it unnecessary, we are told it is in contemplation that a resolution will be moved by a prominent member of the city council at the July meeting rescinding what has already been done in the matter. It is further proposed to hold a town’s meeting in the Town Hall unless another site is decided upon.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Holt Street School Site Under Inspection: The opposition on the part of a committee of Birmingham ratepayers to the proposal for the City Education Committee to erect a school for crippled and defective children in Holt Street, and the petition which they sent the Board of Education, have stimulated that authority to order an inquiry into the Circumstances … (continues) … At the Conference: Later in the morning, at the conference in Edmund Street, Dr. Eichholz took the chair, and round the table were Mr. Green, Inspector of Schools for the district, Mr. G. Kenrick, Chairman of the Education Committee, Dr. Simon, the committee’s medical officer, Mr. Charles Leedham-Green of the Children’s Hospital, Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Mr. Sturge, Mr. Bethune Baker, Mr. J. A. Palmer, secretary to the committee, the Rev. T. Y. Bass, Mr. Gocher and Mr. Peatland … … Unless the action of the Board of Education, to whom Dr. Eichholz will report, makes it unnecessary, we are told it is in contemplation that  a resolution will be moved by a prominent member of the city council at the July meeting rescinding what has already been done in the matter. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949