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Brighton Gazette: Saturday 17th December 1910

The Feeble Minded: Brighton Lecture on their Cure: A lecture was delivered by Mrs. Hume Pinsent at the Public Library on Tuesday morning, on the subject of “The Care and Control… of the Feeble-minded.” …  … She went through the several recommendations made by the Royal Commission, and urged by charts, and other examples from the evidence; the necessity: for State control of the feeble-winded. She advocated a conferring of further powers upon the present Lunacy Commissioners to enable them to deal not only with certified lunatics but with feeble-minded persons and contended that it was no part of the proper duties of the Education Committee, or Board of Guardians, to have so serious a responsibility imposed upon them as was involved in the proper treatment of feeble-minded persons. At the close of the lecture a unanimous vote of thanks was accorded to Mrs. Pinsent on the motion of Councillor Mellor, J.P., seconded by V. C. Bartlett.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Southern Weekly News: Saturday 17th December 1910

Eastbourne: … At the Grove Hall on Monday evening, Mrs. Hume Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission delivered an interesting lecture on the care and control of the feeble-minded … (continues) …

(also) … THE FEEBLE-MINDED: Lecturing before an interested audience at the Brighton Library on Tuesday evening, on “The Care and Control of the Feeble-minded.” Mrs. Hume Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission, went through the several recommendations made by the Commission, and urged, by charts and other examples from the evidence, the necessity for State control of the feeble-minded. She advocated a conferring of further powers upon the present Lunacy Commissioners to enable them to deal not only with certified lunatics but with feeble-minded persons and contended that it was no part of the proper duties of the Education Committee, or Board of Guardians, to have so serious a responsibility imposed upon them as was involved in the proper treatment of feeble-minded persons.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Friday 9th December 1910

Treatment of Feeble-Minded: Need for Special Legislation for Amentia: work in Birmingham: “The treatment of the feeble-minded” was the subject chosen by Mrs. Hume Pinsent for the fourth lecture of a series under the auspices of the Citizen’s League for Poor Law Reform, given at the Birmingham University, Edmund Street last night. The Lord Mayor (Alderman W. H. Bowater), who presided, said the idea of these lectures, of driving home the public the importance of the problems of the poor and inflicted, appealed to him very much … … (continues with a long discussion by Mrs. Pinsent which ends with) … … Defectives in Workhouses: Mrs. Pinsent next passed to the consideration of the subject in its relation to crime, drunkenness and pauperism, supporting her plea for reform with extracts from the report of the Commissioners and medical authorities. The percentage of feeble-minded inmates of workhouses, she said, ranged from 11 per cent to 26 per cent. — these figures not including the defectives passing through the casual wards. Those who were found to be unemployable were largely recruited from the physically and mentally defective. A large percentage of feeble-minded men and women actually drifted into the workhouse before they were thirty years of age. While they could still secure parental help, they managed to exist by obtaining casual unskilled employment put (?) directly after the home was broken up, degradation set in. The lecturer paid a tribute to the work done by the local Joint Board of Guardians at Monyhull, declaring that it was doing and would continue to do some of the best work in England for defectives. But because the Guardians of Birmingham were so enlightened it did not follow that it was best for the country that the Guardians should be the local authority for the care of all defectives. From the evidence given before the Commission it was shown that there were only six or seven boards of Guardians in the whole of England who had been able to give the defectives adequate provision. The lecture was illustrated by a number- of interesting charts illustrating the history of local degenerate families investigated by the lecturer.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Evening Despatch: Friday 9th December 1910

Treatment of Feeble-Minded: Lecture by Mrs. Hume Pinsent: Work in Birmingham: “The treatment of the feeble-minded” was the subject chosen by Mrs. Hume Pinsent for the fourth lecture of a series under the auspices of the Citizen’s League for Poor Law Reform, given at the Birmingham University Edmund Street, last night. … At the outset, Mrs. Pinsent said legislation had been provided in a large measure for the care and control of those who were suffering from acquired insanity, and it was to consider the question of similar legislation for the congenitally defective that the Commission was appointed. The majority of the great groups of congenital defectives, – aments – have not hitherto been considered certifiable, and the present lunacy certificate was so worded that it was almost impossible for doctors to certify these cases, even though it was palpable that they were in urgent deed of care and control. … (continues at length with facts and statistics) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Friday 9th December 1910

Defectives in Workhouses: Mrs. Pinsent next passed to the consideration of the subject in its relation to crime, drunkenness, and pauperism, supporting her plea for reform with extracts from the reports of the Commissioners and medical authorities. The percentage of feeble-minded inmates of workhouses, she said, ranged from 11 per cent. to 26 percent. — These figures do not include the defectives passing through the casual wards. Those who were found to be unemployable were largely recruited from the physically and mentally defective. A large percentage of feeble-minded men and women actually drifted into the workhouse before they were thirty years of age. While they could still secure parental help, they managed to exist by obtaining casual unskilled employment, without directly the home was broken up when degradation set in. The lecturer paid a tribute to the work done by the local Joint Board of Guardians at Monyhull, declaring that it was doing and would continue to do some of the best work in England for defectives. But because the Guardians of Birmingham were so enlightened it did not follow that it was best for the country that the Guardians should be the local authority for the care of all defectives. From the evidence given before the Commission it was shown that there were only six or seven boards of Guardians in the whole of England who had been able to give the defectives adequate provision. The lecture was illustrated by a number of interesting charts illustrating the history of local degenerate families investigated by the lecturer.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Southwark and Bermondsey Recorder: Friday 11th November 1910

“The National Review” for November contains a vast amount of useful reading, articles dealing with subjects of general importance … … Mrs. Pinsent also writes on social responsibility and heredity …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Thursday 10th November 1910

The Church and Social Reform: Discussion at Birmingham Diocesan Conference: Need of Legislation: In the absence of the Bishop of Southwark, the discussion which took place at the Birmingham Diocesan Conference yesterday afternoon on Poor Law Reform was opened by the Bishop of Birmingham … Mrs. Hume Pinsent then read a paper on the subject of “The Feeble-Minded.” Mrs. Pinsent urged the need of immediate legislation to save large numbers of their fellow-creatures from otherwise certain degradation and to prevent the present generation of feeble-minded boys and girls from becoming criminals, inebriates, and paupers, and in order to secure that no further public money was wasted. Mrs. Pinsent impressed upon the members of the conference the danger that underlay the system of caring for defectives until they reached the age of sixteen and then allowing them absolute freedom … … (discussion on juvenile labour) … … During the discussion which followed the bishop expressed agreement with the contention of Mrs. Hume Pinsent that legislation for the life-care of the feeble-minded was necessary. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Nottingham Guardian: Thursday 8th November 1910

The Month’s Reviews: Nineteenth Century: … … American affairs are considered by Mr. A. Maurice Low, Mr. W. E. Bear writes on “The Single Tax Mania,” and on the subject of “Social Responsibility and Heredity,” Mrs. Pinsent remarks that “Methods such as control of the mentally defective are not and cannot be sufficient. Something further must be done to meet the position in which we find ourselves today. I mean the position arising from the fact that the undesirable sections of the population are producing children at a faster rate than the desirable. The efficient members of society mut be encouraged to have larger families. This is the problem of the future.”  …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Monday 7th November 1910

Care of Mental Defectives: Mrs. Hume Pinsent on Unity of Control: Conflicting Orders: The urgent need of uniform methods in the care and control of the mentally defective was emphasized by Mrs. Hume Pinsent in a lecture she delivered at the Bristol Street Council Schools, last night, to the Birmingham Socialist Church. Remarking that two years had elapsed since the Royal Commission issued its report, she said it could no longer be argued that it would be wise to wait until more was known about the subject before instituting legislation. Sufficient was known for all practical purposes and the need for legislation was urgent. … (long description of Commission’s findings and the legislation proposed) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Evening Despatch: Saturday 5th November 1910

Care of the Feeble-Minded: Results of the Monyhull Colony Treatment: Conference in London: The South-Eastern and Metropolitan Districts Poor Law Conference was concluded yesterday in London, under the presidency of Mr. Edmund R. Wodehouse, C.B. Dr. Bert Jordan (Medical Officer to the Monyhull Colony for the Epileptic and Feeble-minded) in an address on the care of the epileptic and feeble-minded, described the results of two and a half year’ experience at the Colony, which is stated about five miles southwest of the centre of Birmingham. … (long discussion of colony) … Mrs. Pinsent’s Tribute: Mrs. Pinsent (Birmingham Education Authority) said the Monyhull colony was one of the three best institutions in the world for the care of the feeble-minded people. In its conception, management, and results, England might well be proud of it (applause).

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949