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The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer: Saturday 14th December 1912

The Care of the Feeble-Minded: Pressing for Legislation: The Annual Conference of the National Association for the Feeble-Minded on “after care” took place at the London Guildhall yesterday. The proceedings were opened by the Lord Mayor. …  … (discussion of infringement of liberty and on a paper on “The Administrative Question”) …  At the afternoon session, Mr. Leslie F. Scott, M.P. moved a resolution urging the re-introduction of the Mental deficiency Bill again next session. He contended that in the cases that most needed care and protection it would almost invariable be found that the fault was with friends and relatives who did not take the care that should be taken (Applause): Mrs. Hume Pinsent seconded the motion and said there has been a great deal said and written about individual liberty. The liberty which the members of the opposition the Bill would grant to the feeble-minded meant simply the liberty to be ruined. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Saturday 14th December 1912

Liberty to Blind Man: … … …Mr. Leslie F. Scott. M.P., moved a resolution urging upon the Government to introduce the Bill at the very earliest possible moment after Parliament reassembled. He urged the importance of treating children, and referred to the proposal that the Board of Education should be the sifting machine for deciding whether the child was or was not a child that could face the battle of life by itself. Mrs. Hume Pinsent: Mrs. Hume Pinsent, in seconding, said they all knew that some Boards of Guardians, though by no means all, would have liked the Government Bill to have been framed on slightly different lines. For the sake of all the Government Bill would protect and care for, she asked them not to press their point. She was quite sure that while there were 66,000 afflicted persons who needed care and protection, every bed in the country would be wanted; and supplemented by State aid. Therefore, she hoped that different managements of voluntary homes in the country would join in sending to the Home Secretary petitioning for the Bill which would make it possible for them to enlarge the scope of their work, and to keep those children and young people whom they had got, under continuous and kindly care.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Weekly Mercury: Saturday 7th December 1912

Three-Department School: Mrs. Hume Pinsent moved a further amendment that the plans be referred back for further consideration, and that plans should be prepared making it possible for the school, when enlarged to be made into a three-department school. After Councillor George Cadbury had altered his amendment so as to advocate classes of 40 for senior schools and 48 for infants – this being the London Standard – Mrs. Hume Pinsent’s amendment was carried and Mr. Cadbury’s lost. As a substantive resolution Mrs. Pinsent’s amendment was also approved. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Saturday 30th November 1912

Mr. George Cadbury, Jun., moved an amendment that the matter be referred back to the sub-committee with instructions to submit fresh plans for not more than forty children to one classroom. Three-Department School: Mrs. Hume Pinsent moved a further amendment that the plans be referred back for further consideration, and that plans should be prepared making it possible for the school, when enlarged, to be made into a three-department school. After Councillor George Cadbury had altered his amendment so as to advocate classes of 40 for senior schools and 48 for infants, this being the Loudon standard, Mrs. Hume Pinsent’s amendment was carried and Mr. Cadbury’s lost. As a substantive resolution Mrs. Pinsent’s amendment was also approved. The question of school accommodation in Selly Oak and Bournbrook district was raised … … (continues) … … 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Friday 29th November 1912

The “Times” published a weighty letter yesterday beseeching members of Parliament to work overtime for the purpose of passing the Mental Deficiency Bill this Session. Birmingham has always been in the forefront in her efforts to further this branch of social reform, so the strong representation of the city in the long list of influential signatures is not surprising. The names of Councillor David Davis, the Hon. Stephen Foster, Mr. Ernest Hiley, Sir George H. Kenrick, the Lord Mayor, and Mrs. Ellen F. Pinsent appears. But is not the plea of urgency somewhat over-emphasised? This is not the kind of Bill the House of Lords is likely to throw out, and any delay which may be caused will probably not amount to more than three or four months. Moreover, it is desirable that the measure should not be rushed, for as at present many sympathisers with the main principle find it challenging to the liberty of the subject. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Saturday 23rd November 1912

Aston Labour church, Ruskin Hall, Victoria Road: tomorrows (Sunday), Councillor Mrs. E. F. Pinsent, Subject: “The Care of the feeble-Minded Child.” Commence 7 prompt. Collection: 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Thursday 21st November 1912

After-Care Society: Aid for Persons Discharged from Asylums: The useful work being done by the After-Care Association, which seeks to assist poor persons discharged recovered from asylums for the insane, was described at a meeting held in Birmingham Council Chamber yesterday afternoon. After addresses had been given, it was decided to form a branch of the Association for Birmingham. The Lord Mayor (Councillor E. Martineau) presided and explained that the aftercare of the insane was one of the bits of ground which they found had been left uncovered in Birmingham. It required special treatment because many of the other charitable associations fought a little shy of this particular class of people. Therefore, it was thought necessary to have a special society to look after such people, but for many reasons it had been considered better that it should be formed as a branch of the National Association rather than as a separate body. The great need of the society was to get a number of people with special training to deal with these special cases. Councillor Mrs. Pinsent gave several reasons why such an association as that suggested should be formed in Birmingham. Patients leaving asylums were less able to help themselves than almost any other class of patients and one thing which stood out clearly in all the methods of modern charity was the temptation that it was really no lasting good treating a malady itself if the individual was returned to the same surroundings and environment, which were more or less the cause of the malady. Councillor David Davis eulogised the work of Mrs. Pinsent on the Asylum Committee and said her advent on the committee could not but result in the greatest amount of good for the asylum administration and the patients themselves. The resolution to form a branch of the society was unanimously carried, and the Lord Mayor was appointed, with others, to form a committee. 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Yorkshire Factory Times: Thursday 21st November 1912

Women in Local Government: Too little attention has been paid to the effect of the Reform Bill on the position of women in Local Government, says a writer in the “English Woman” for November …  (continues) … … An Act of 1907 enabled qualified married women to have their names included in the burgess roll and in the list of county electors.  In Birmingham, in particular, this point of law has been upheld in their favour. There the names of qualified married women are on the register and Mrs. Hume Pinsent is a member of the City Council. The Reform Bill now determines this point of law against women. …  (continues) …  Should the clause in the Bill pass as it now stands, Mrs. Hume Pinsent would be disqualified from continuing her services on the Birmingham City Council … … (continues) … …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Wednesday 20th November 1912

To Help Discharged Asylum Patients: Birmingham Branch of the After-Care Association to be Formed: … The Lord Mayor (Councillor E. Martineau) presided at a meeting in the Council Chamber this afternoon in aid of After-Care Association and explained that it had been found that the care of poor persons recovered from asylums for the insane was one of the pieces of work which had been missed in Birmingham. It was a difficult piece of work because most charitable agencies fought rather shyly of people described in that way, and it was thought best to form a branch of the After-Care Association to deal with the problem. … … Councillor Mrs. Pinsont proposed the formation of a branch of the association in Birmingham and suggested that it was necessary because patients leaving asylums were less able to help themselves than any kind patients. … (continues)…

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Erdington News: Saturday 9th November 1912

Birmingham Chrysanthemum Show: … (long discussion) … Local Classes: … Cauliflowers: 1, H. C. Pinsent; 2, A. Hill, Aston, 3. F. Whitbread, South Yardley. Savoy Cabbage: 1, F. G. Hyde, 2, H. C. Pinsent, 3, C. Eaves … (continues) … Primulas: 1, Mrs. R. Payton, 2, H. S. Batson. Cyclamen, 1. H. C. Pinsent, 2, W. H. Starkey; 3, Mrs. R. Payton … (continues) … Also … Birmingham City Council: Nomination of Committees: Proposed New Standing Order: … Education … (long list includes) … Mrs. Pinsent … Lunatic Asylums … (short list includes Mrs. Pinsent) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920