Tag: GRO0245

Bishop Appeals to English Women: Asked to Give up Political Aspiration for Nursery: Race Suicide Danger: … (continues) …  Colonies of Unfit: … A note of warning against sentimental legislation was struck by Mrs. Pinsent, of Birmingham, a member of the Royal Commission on the Care of the Feeble-Minded: “Our altruistic feelings and efforts for improving the environment of the poorer classes,” she said, “were perpetuating the unfit, while at the same time the reproduction of the higher types were neglected, and the average standard of humanity lowered … (continues) …”

[see similar: Evening Mail: Friday 30^th September 1910]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Eugenics: Mrs. Pinsent and Feeble Minded: … The Need for Better Heredity: Mrs. Pinsent (Birmingham) traced the striking growth of altruistic feeling during the nineteenth century to the consequent development of the idea of social or corporate responsibility. … (continues) … Unless something could be done to secure a better heredity for the coming generations all the altruistic feelings we so rightly valued might tend to the perpetuation of the very condition of things we so rightly condemned … (continues at length) … At present we were encouraging the degenerate to perpetuate themselves at the expense of the desirable citizens who were rated and taxed to supply the degenerates with facilities for breeding (Loud and prolonged cheers). The Bishop of Ripon also spoke.

[see similar overview Leicester Daily Mercury: Thursday 29th September 1910]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

At the Church Congress at Cambridge on Wednesday Mrs. Pinsent, pointing out that undesirable classes of the population were fast increasing, argued that desirable and efficient people must be encouraged to have larger families, and advocated direct State encouragement to the reproduction of better stocks.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Church Congress: The Care of the Feeble-Minded: The Church Congress at Cambridge discussed today (Wednesday) our social responsibility with reference to the feeble minded. … Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission on the Care of the Feeble-Minded, pointing out that the undesirable classes of the population were fast increasing … (continues at length) … …

[see also at length Nottingham Guardian: Thursday 29^th September 1910] & related: Farnworth Chronicle: Saturday 1^st October 1910]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Decay of Race: Church Congress and the Declining Birth Rate: The Church Congress at Cambridge disused today social responsibility with reference to the feeble Minded: Dr. Shuttleworth (London) advocated more special schools for mentally defective children, the segregation in industrial colonies of feeble-minded adults and measure to prevent illegitimacy among them. Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission on the care of the feebleminded, pointed out that the undesirable classes of the population were fast increasing and 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 … (continues) …

[see also Nottingham Evening Post: Wednesday 28^th September 1910]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Today’s Proceedings at Cambridge: The Population Question: At the Church Congress at Cambridge, today, in a discussion on social responsibility with reference to the feeble-minded, Dr. G. Shuttleworth, London, advocated more schools for mentally defective children, the segregation in industrial colonies of feeble-minded adults and measures to prevent illegitimacy amongst them. Mrs. Pinsent, a 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 larger families, and that there should be direct State encouragement in reproduction of the better stocks …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Jubilee Church Congress: Great Gathering Expected: Revised Programme Reviewed: … … Wednesday … … Another meeting at the same hour in the Examination Hall will deal with heredity and social responsibility with special reference to (a) the feeble minded, to be spoken on by Dr. G. E. Shuttleworth and Mrs. Pinsent … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

The Jubilee Church Congress at Cambridge: Features of the Forthcoming Meeting: As the Church Congress met fifty years ago in Cambridge, so it will celebrate its jubilee by meeting in the University town once more. The meetings, which will occupy the day from Monday Sept. 26 to Friday Sept. 30will probably offer much that will interest women … (general discussion) … Another meeting which will certainly excite much interest is to be held on the morning of 28^th and has for its subject “Heredity and social responsibility, with special reference to the feeble-minded and parentage”. Mrs. Pinsent will speak of the treatment of the feeble-minded, on which she is a recognized authority. … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded: I came across the other day a very lucid and exhaustive, through brief, review of an article by Mrs. Hume Pinsent, one of the Royal Commissioners in connection with the “Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded,” on this same subject. Towards the end of 1904, the Commissioners began their labours, and we still read in “The British Journal of Nursing,” in which this review appeared, that “the Commissioners have recommended to remedy this state of affairs, a new “Act for the Care and Control of the Mentally Defective” … (continues) … (long discussion) … …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949