Tag: GRO0245

Vote: Saturday 8th June 1912

What Women are Doing: … … Representative of a Municipality. Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Birmingham Corporation, is the first woman elected to represent a municipality at the annual meeting of the Association of Municipal Corporations. It is only four years since women could become members of municipal corporations and thus secure election to the Association. At the meeting of the Association, Mrs. Pinsent gave an address on the putting into force of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded, of which she herself was a member. It was agreed to impress upon the Government the need for the early enactment of the promised measure.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Smethwick Telephone: Saturday 8th June 1912

The Care of the Feeble-Minded: Alderman Sir George Kenrick presented a recommendation that, subject to the approval of the Board of Education, the Birmingham Board of Guardians be asked to provide, at Monyhull, residential school accommodation for 50 epileptics and 180 mentally defective children to be sent there by the Education Committee. Mrs. Pinsent seconded the proposal and said the scheme would unify the provision made by the Guardians and the Education Committee; it would therefore be more efficacious and, at the same time much more economical.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Common Cause: Thursday 6th June 1912

Legislation for the Feeble-Minded: … letter from Angela M. James (Hon. Mrs. Bernard James) … includes … The delay in carrying out the Recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Feeble-minded has already been too long – possibly if women had had the vote, it would have been pressed on sooner. As it is, it is largely owing to the strenuous efforts of a small number of women interested in the question that these Bills are now before Parliament—among them are Miss Dendy and Mrs. Pinsent; Miss Kirby, the Secretary of the National Association for the Feeble-minded, and Mrs. Gotto, Hon. Secretary of the Eugenics Education Society, and their work ought to receive the warmest support from all women who wish to improve the lot of these poor creatures, or who think of the future of our race.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Erdington News: Saturday 1st June 1912

Birmingham Education Committee: Scholarships Question: Suggested School for Epileptics … (long discussion) … … defective children would be able to live separately from the adults who had not had such a training as was proposed, and the Councillor Geo. Cadbury enquired whether they would automatically pass on to the care of another authority when they had reached the ae of 16. In reply to Mr. Cadbury, Mrs. Pinsent said the committee would have power to certify the children for a further period of detention at the age of 16. The committee’s report was then adopted. … …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

London Evening Standard: Wednesday 29th May 1912

Women on Municipalities: Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Birmingham Corporation, is the first woman elected to represent a municipality at the annual meeting of the Association of Municipal Corporations. It is, however, four years since women could become members of municipal corporations and thus secure election to the Association. At the meeting of the Association Mrs. Pinsent gave an address on the putting into force of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded, of which she herself was a member. It was agreed to impress upon the Government the need for the early enactment of the promised measure.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Hull Daily Mail: Wednesday 29th May 1912

Women on Municipalities: Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Birmingham Corporation is the first woman elected to represent a municipality at the annual meeting of the Association of Municipal Corporations. It is, however, four years since women could become members of municipal corporations and thus secure election to the Association. At the meeting of the Association Mrs. Pinsent gave an address on the putting into force of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded, of which she herself was a member. It was agreed to impress upon the Government the need for the early enactment of the promised measure.

(see also Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough: Wednesday 29th May 1912).

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Saturday 25th May 1912

Two Important Schemes for Children’s Care: The Feeble-Minded: An Increase of over 2sd in the Rate: Several important matters came up for adoption at a meeting of the Birmingham Education Committee held at the Council House yesterday under the chairmanship of Sir George Kenrick. Approval was given to a joint scheme arranged between the committee and the Birmingham Guardians for the erection of a residential school at Monyhull for epileptic and feebleminded children, in support of which Mrs. Hume Pinsent gave an inspiring address. It was also decided to proceed with a scheme for the provision of dental clinics, and treatment of children suffering from defects of the eye. The estimates were also adopted. Mr. Norman Chamberlain stated that the education rate worked out at 2s 0.68d, compared with 1s. 10d last year, an increase of 2.68 d in the pound.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Friday 24th May 1912

Feeble-Minded Children: Mrs. Hume Pinsent and the Monyhull Scheme: Important Proposals: At the Birmingham Education Committee this afternoon Mrs. Hume Pinsent presented the report of the Special School Sub-committee, which recommended the provision of accommodation for mentally defective and epileptic children at Monyhull. It was estimated that the cost for each child would be around 10s 6d per week, and the accommodation was proposed for 72 epileptic children and 267 mentally defective children. Mrs. Pinsent said the scheme was the result of ten years’ investigation and it was the most important work which the sub-committee had yet undertaken … (continues) … (description and discussion of scheme) … The Chairman congratulated Mrs. Pinsent upon her efforts in bringing two authorities to work together instead of in opposition. If this matter were to be handled sensibly it must be handled by the two authorities. Mrs. Pinsent, in replying to the points raised, said that with regard to the Government Bill, as far as she could make out, there was nothing in that measure which would hinder their proposals. In fact, there was one clause in the measure which suggested that the Government had this plan in mind. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

South Wales Echo: Wednesday 15th May 1912

Lady Pioneer: Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Birmingham Corporation, caused a decided sensation at the meeting of the Association of Municipal Corporations yesterday. She is the first woman who has ever been elected to represent a municipality at the annual meeting of the association. The strangeness of the situation completely upset the municipal dignitaries from the Lord Mayor of London downwards. The Lord Mayor called her “my lady” and so did several others. Mrs. Pinsent signaled her accession to the association by a well-reasoned address on the putting into force of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded, of which she herself was a valuable member.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Wednesday 15th May 1912

Municipal Corporations: Need of Legislation to Deal with the Feeble-Minded: At the annual meeting in London yesterday of the Association of Municipal Corporations Mrs. Pinsent (Birmingham), the first lady to attend the meetings of the association as a delegate, moved a resolution calling for the introduction of legislation to deal with the feeble-minded. There were in the country, she said, excluding certified lunatics, some 150,000 mentally defective persons. Of these, 45,000 to 50,000 were children and three quarters of these were left without any special care, training, or control. A quarter to a fifth of the paupers in the country were feeble-minded. The Town Clerk of Leeds seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949