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Erdington News: Saturday 10th May 1913

Special School Teachers’ Conference: Mrs. Hume Pinsent and Mental Deficiency Bill: A conference of the members of the Birmingham and Midland Branch of the National Union of Special School Teachers was held on Saturday at Uffculme open-air school, Moor Green …  Mrs. Pinsent read a paper on the “Mental Deficiency Bill ” now before Parliament. Mrs. Pinsent drew attention to the present inadequacy of the present laws affecting lunacy and the feeble minded. … … (continues at length) … … Mrs. Pinsent illustrated her paper with a number of interesting and novel charts and diagrams, which included the story of a depraved woman whose story of drunkenness and crime was a sad one. Mrs. Pinsent remarked, amid applause, that the cost to the ratepayers would be far less had she been living under protection and care. A discussion followed and Mrs. Pinsent was thanked for her paper. … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Erdington News: Saturday 10th May 1913

Special School Teachers’ Conference: Mrs. Hume Pinsent and Mental Deficiency Bill: A conference of the members of the Birmingham and Midland Branch of the National Union of Special School Teachers was held on Saturday at Uffculme open-air school, Moor Green …  Mrs. Pinsent read a paper on the “Mental Deficiency Bill ” now before Parliament. Mrs. Pinsent drew attention to the present inadequacy of the present laws affecting lunacy and the feeble minded. … … (continues at length) … … Mrs. Pinsent illustrated her paper with a number of interesting and novel charts and diagrams, which included the story of a depraved woman whose story of drunkenness and crime was a sad one. Mrs. Pinsent remarked, amid applause, that the cost to the ratepayers would be far less had she been living under protection and care. A discussion followed and Mrs. Pinsent was thanked for her paper. … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Westerham Herald: Saturday 5th April 1913

Seven Oaks Board of Guardian: … … The Mentally Deficient: A circular letter was read from Mrs. Pinsent, of the joint committee in support of the Mental Deficiency Bill, asking the Board to pass a resolution urging the immediate passing of the measure. It was decided to do so, and to send a copy of the resolution to the Prime Minister and to Mr. H. W. Forster, M.P. 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Wednesday 7th February 1912

Compulsory Thrift: Mrs. Hume Pinsent on the Weakness of the Act: The Alice Beale Female Lodge of the National and Independent Order of Oddfellows has removed its headquarters to the Digbeth Institute, and this fact was signalized last night by the holding of a concert and social evening at the institute. Provincial Grand Master Mr. J. P. Carter presided, and there were present among others Mrs. Beale (Patroness), Councillor Mrs. Hume, Pinsent, Councillor T. Foster Duggan, and others.  Mrs. Hume Pinsent referred to the Insurance Act. She said she was sure they would all agree with the principles underlying the Act, even if they could not agree with the Act as at present constituted. It was an attempt by the Government to make the people thrifty by Act of Parliament. It was a costly way and would do very little good unless each individual gave his help. They must convince every man and woman that it was to their own advantage that they should be clean and thrifty. It was only in this way that they could build up individual character and make everyone feel that it was beneath their dignity to do anything that was not clean and right. Compulsion was only for the weak and ignorant and would only be necessary so long as they had the weak and ignorant amongst them. Such societies as theirs did away with compulsion. And she urged all members to remain members and to persuade their friends to join. (applause) … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Friday 25th April 1913

Birmingham Education Committee: Letting of Council Schools for Whist Drives: Sub-Committee’s Advice: … … Mrs. Pinsent, on behalf of the Special Schools Committee. reported that the Board Education had made a grant of £225 in aid of the expenditure incurred on the medical treatment and care of children attending the Uffculme Open-air School. That amount was, roughly speaking, about £2 for each child; and added the grant obtained under the Epileptic Children’s Act, was increased to nearly £6 per head. That amount was almost half the expenditure on children in the open-air school. She thought the committee would consider that very satisfactory. (Hear, hear.)

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Erdington News: Saturday 22nd March 1913

Birmingham Education Committee: … (long discussion) … Minor Ailments, Amendment Carried. The Hygiene Sub-committee recommended that in view of the small cost to the Education Committee – £20 per annum – for the treatment of external minor ailments in children, no charge should be made to the parents. … (discussion) … Mrs. Pinsent said she was very sorry to move an amendment referring the matter back to committee, and that a detailed estimate of the cost and scheme of charges should be prepared. She thought the chairman was not in full possession of the facts … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Wednesday 19th March 1913

Birmingham Education Committee: Elementary School, Children and Scholarships: … Birmingham Allowances to be Reconsidered: …  … Mrs. Pinsent moved an amendment favour of referring the report back, and asking for a detailed estimate of the cost, and a scheme of charges to parents. She insisted that the treatment of minor ailments was a much bigger thing than anticipated by the Hygiene Sub-committee; and argued that the annual cost would be nearer £600 than £20. She described the latter as wholly misleading, as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.” With regard to dental treatment and the provision of spectacles the amount paid was equal to 70 per cent. Anything obtained for nothing was not valued. Mrs. Pinsent’s amendment was carried.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Bromsgrove and Droitwich Messenger: Saturday 15th March 1913

Mental Deficiency Bill: A letter was received from Mrs. Pinsent asking the Council to support by resolution the re-introduction of the Mental Deficiency Bill as amended. … It was an important Bill. It had been crowded out for four or five sessions now, and no doubt the writer of the letter was of the opinion that a little pressure from the Bromsgrove Council would hurry matters a little (Laughter) the letter was allowed to lie on the table.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Lichfield Mercury: Friday 14th March 1913

Lichfield City Council: … The Care of the Feeble-Minded: The mayor read the following letter which had been received from the Bishop of Lichfield: – The Palace, Lichfield: 1st March 1913: … My dear Mr. Mayor – Mrs. Pinsent has sent me the papers which I enclose. The Mental Deficiency Bill seems to be not only desirable, but also urgent and its principle is, I think, generally accepted. I venture to ask you to bring it before the City Council with a view to secure a resolution as suggested …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Friday 14th March 1913

Women in Local Government: Professor Ashley’s Challenge to Political Parties: Meeting in Birmingham: … … The report was adopted unanimously. It pointed out that the Government Franchise and Registration Bill, if passed, would limit the facilities of women for serving local government bodies because disqualified married women in England and Wales outside London as electors and councillors. This would deprive the Birmingham City Council of the valuable services of Mrs. Hume Pinsent, and the Committee wrote all local members of Parliament on the matter and received sympathetic replies from the majority. The withdrawal of the Government Bill had left the matter in abeyance for the present. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949