Tag: GRO0245

Problem of the Unfit: Segregation Advocated at Church Congress: Falling Birthrate: … … (long discussion of economic effects) … …  Mrs. Pinsent illustrated her argument from histories of mentally defective families in which mental deft and criminal propensities could be traced through three of four generation, and so the cost of such families to the community was very large. … (continuation) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Discussion at the Church Congress: … … Mrs. Pinsent, member of the Royal Commission on the Care of the Feeble-Minded pointing out that the undesirable classes of the population were fast increasing, 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. …

[see related: Sheffield Independent: 29^th September 1910]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Unfit Parents: Sheffield Lecture on the Care of Defectives: Breeding Criminals: The appalling folly and social tragedy of England’s neglect of the feeble-minded was strikingly illustrated in a lectured delivered in Sheffield last night by Mrs. Hume Pinsent of Birmingham. Her subject was the “Report of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded.” The most instructive part of the lecture and certainly the most convincing was furnished by a series of diagrams which succinctly illustrated the consequences of defectives becoming parents. Mrs. Pinsent, who was a member of the Commission named sought to emphasize the growing conviction that the root of many of the difficulties social workers and public authorities have to deal with is the disconnected and incomplete powers for dealing with feeble-minded persons … (continues at length) … Mrs. Pinsent strongly advocated the creation of one central authority, vested with powers of compulsory detention, to deal solely with defectives so that unity and continuity of control, as compared with the present chaotic system might be exercised over them from the cradle to the grave, if necessary. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Advertisement: Old Firth College, Leopold Street, Sheffield: Monday May 2^nd at 8 p.m.: “The Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded” by Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Sir William Clegg, J.P, in the Chair. … Also … Care of the Feeble-Minded: There should be a large audience in the Old Firth College, Sheffield, on Monday evening to hear a lecture by Mrs. Hume Pinsent on “The Report of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded.” Mrs. Pinsent is a great authority on the subject. She was a member of the Commission, and is a member of the Birmingham Education Committee, occupying the position of chairman of the Special Schools Sub-Committee of the authority. Sir William Clegg will preside at the meeting.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Dr. Bosanquet’s Lecture: Dr. Bernard Bosanquet, who is to give the last of the series of Poor-law lectures entitled “The Art of Public Assistance,” on Tuesday next at the Friends’ Meeting House Hartshead, has had a distinguished literary career … … Although this is the last of the series of lectures arranged, a further one has been announced and will be given on Monday 2^nd May by Mrs. Hume Pinsent, on the recent report of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded. Mrs. Hume Pinsent was a member of the Commission and is also a member of the Birmingham Education Committee. She is, therefore, specially fitted for dealing with the valuable suggestions made by the commission.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

State Control of Degenerates: Royal Commission’s Report: Drastic Reforms: The Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble Minded issued its report yesterday, after four years of strenuous inquiry. … The members of the Commission are … (list includes) … Mrs. Ellen Frances Pinsent. Its conclusions, which it hopes to see embodied in a new Act, would revolutionise present methods. … (continues) … 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

At Bedford College for Women (University of London) Mr. James Cantlie, M.A., M.B., F.R.C.S. will lecture on “Physical Efficiency,” March 4, at 5.30 p.m., and Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Chairman of the Special Schools Sub-Committee, Birmingham, on “The Problem of the Mentally Defective,” March 18, at 5.30 p.m. Open without fee.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

At a meeting of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble minded at Westminster, on Friday, Lord Radnor presided, and there were also present Mr. Byrne, Mr. C. Hobhouse, M.P., Mr. H. D. Greene, K.C., Mr. W. H. Dickinson, M.P., Mrs. Pinsent, Dr. Needham, Mr. Chadwyck-Healey, K.C., Dr. Dunlop, the Rev. H. Burden, and Mr. Mothersole, secretary. Evidence was given by Dr. C. E. Liesching, chairman of the Lunacy Committee of the Tiverton Town Council, and others. … 

[see also Tiverton Gazette: 13th February 1906]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Imbeciles as Citizens: Present System said to be Philanthropic Lunacy: National Danger: the conference at the Guildhall to consider the question of the feeble-minded yesterday adopted with unanimity a resolution calling upon Parliament to grant power of detention of feeble-minded persons whose liberty is likely to be harmful to themselves and the community … … The impossibility of looking after feeble-minded children when they leave the special schools was emphasised by Mrs. Hume Pinsent. Two of her own cases at Birmingham have, in spite of her visits drifted into the police court. One was that of a boy who committed a motiveless robbery and was sent to gaol; the other that of girl who has a feeble-minded mother with whom she fights, and “whom she will probably kill.” “We can at present do nothing in these individual cases,” said Mrs. Pinsent, “but we should lose no opportunity of demonstrating the inhuman, absurd, and uneconomical methods of society which spends money on police supervision and workhouse accommodation for the feeble-minded, who, if working in industrial colonies, could be made nearly self-supporting.” ……

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

To Consider Revision of the Lunacy Laws: 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 … … The names of the commissioners are as follows: … (list includes) … Mrs. Pinsent … The appointment of the Commission is the result of a long-standing agitation for the amendment of the law of lunacy, which had been led by Dr. Savage, Sir William Gowers, Sir Willian Church, and other well-known brain specialists. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949