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Southwestern Star (London): Friday 13th March 1925

Tooting Bec Hospital Extension Opened: The vastness of the Metropolitan Asylums Board Mental Hospital at Tooting Bec Common was a revelation to many of the visitors who Tuesday afternoon took part in the opening of the extension buildings … (continues) … Disabilities of Old Age: Until recently such persons could not be admitted to the hospital unless they were first certified as insane. This formality – for it was a formality – had been done away with. … (list of attendees includes) … Mrs. Pinsent … 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer: Wednesday 14th May 1924

The Pinsent – Darwin Fund: The Sum of £5,000 having been presented by Mrs. Pinsent, Sir Horace Darwin, and the Hon. Lady Darwin, the Council of the Senate recommend that the aims of the donors would be best attained by the foundation of a Studentship which would have an annual value of about £200, the student to carry out original research.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Cheltenham Chronicle: Saturday 16th February 1924

Cirencester Board of Guardians: … A report made to the Ministry of Health by Mrs. E. F. Pinsent, Inspector of the Board of Control upon her visit to the Cirencester Poor Law Institution on December 11th to inspect the mental cases was read by the chairman. In her report Mrs. Pinsent suggested the appointment of a teacher to teach the mentally deficient children and suggested that the Board should apply to the Central Association of Mental Welfare for a teacher. The House Committee who had considered the report thought that the appointment of such a teacher was unnecessary, it being pointed out that new methods of teaching the mental patients had been adopted since the visit of the Inspector. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Gloucester Citizen: Thursday 31st January 1924

Mental Deficiency Problem: Gift for Promoting Research: An offer of £5,000 for the purpose of promoting research at, Cambridge University, by studentship otherwise, into any problem which may have a bearing on mental defects, diseases, or disorders has been made by Mrs. Hume Pinsent and Sir Horace and Lady Darwin, says the “Birmingham Post.”

In a letter to the Vice-Chancellor the donors say they believe the racial and social problems involved by the existence of large numbers of mentally incapable persons in the community are of great national importance, and that their solution may have far reaching effects.

They to give the money in memory of the following persons: Hume C. Pinsent, scholar and fellow of St. John’s College; Erasmus Darwin, exhibitioner of Trinity College; David Hume Pinsent, scholar of Trinity College; and Richard Parker Pinsent, exhibitioner of Balliol College, Oxford.

If a studentship is founded, they intimate that they would like it to be open to either sex and suggest that it be called the Pinsent- Darwin Studentship. Mr. Hume Chancellor Pinsent, who died at Foxcombe Hill, near Oxford, four years ago, was well known in Birmingham as a member of the firm of Messrs. Smith, Pinsent, and Co. solicitors.

Elected to a foundation scholarship at St. John’s, Cambridge, in 1876, he had a distinguished career, graduating fourth wrangler in 1878. In Birmingham Mr. Pinsent did good work in connection with the Midland Institute and the University, and on his retirement from business 1913 was a member of the Council of the latter body.

Mrs. Pinsent, who up to 1913 was a member of the Birmingham Education Committee and of the City Council (on which she represented the Edgbaston Ward), is an authority on the care and education of defective children and was a member the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the subject.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0163 Devonport: David Hume Pinsent: 1891 – 1918
GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920
GRO0740 Devonport: Richard Parker Pinsent: 1894 – 1915

Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette: Saturday 15th December 1923

Bath Visitors’ List: Grand Pump Room Hotel … (includes) … Mrs. Solly, Mrs. Fulda, and Mrs. Hume Pinsent (all of London) …

[see also Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette: Saturday 22nd December and Saturday 29th December 1923]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Sheffield Daily Telegraph: Thursday 18th October 1923

The Sheffield Guardians … In the minutes of the House Committee appeared a copy of the report of Mrs. E. F. Pinsent, one of the visiting commissioners of the Board of Control, who recently visited the Sheffield Institution’s mental wards. The report stated: — “I have to-day paid a second visit to this institution and would like to record a hearty appreciation of the excellent condition in which I found the mental wards. A good deal of redecoration has taken place, and has been carried out with taste, and shows the value of colour in producing bright and cheerful rooms. The whole place was beautifully clean, and patients nicely dressed, and the day rooms most comfortably furnished. The patients were friendly and responsive, and the women were delighted to give me an exhibition of their dancing and singing. I have seldom seen happier and more contented patients. The observation wards, to which the patients are sent on admission, were bright and cheerful, and there was an entire absence of noise and excitement. There has been no restraint since the last inspection, and the use of the padded room is only recorded on four occasions. The patients are obviously well nursed and treated with kindness and sympathy.’’ Mrs. Pinsent also mentioned that “during the last five months 170 patients have been admitted to the mental wards, and 111 of these, ‘were sent on to a mental hospital’. The average time which 109 of these patients spent in the mental wards of this Poor Law Institution before transfer to a mental hospital was 4-6 days. The remaining two stayed for longer periods; they were at first certified under “Section 24 of the Lunacy Act.”

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette: Saturday 1st September 1923

Bath Guardians: … An Unpleasant Subject: At the previous meeting of the Board there was considerable discussion respecting the lady visitors’ report on the condition of the men’s lavatories at the House, and this morning the House Committee reported: “This matter was very fully discussed, and ultimately the following resolution adopted: ‘Having considered the visitors’ report and the Master’s explanation, the Committee are satisfied that the complaint arose owing to constructional condition of premises referred to and the class of inmate using them’”. There was no comment on this subject and the report of the Committee was passed. The House Committee’s Report was of an unusually extensive character as it embodied a report on matters referred to by Mr. Duff, General Inspector, and Mrs. Pinsent, Lunacy Commissioner, as the results of their inspection of the House. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949


 

Nottingham Journal: Friday 31st August 1923

Mental Problems: Leicester’s Pioneer Work: A New Home: The Leicester Frith, which until recently was a home for shell-shock patients was today opened as an institution for the care of the mentally defective of Leicester. The opening ceremony was performed by Sir Frederick Willis, Chairman of the Board of Control … … Mrs. Ellen Pinsent, a Commissioner of the Board of Control, spoke of the value of co-operation between the local and the central bodies. Leicester was the pioneer in this work. It was the first town in England to start special schools, and one of the first local authorities to start an institution of its own. … … 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Hampshire Telegraph: Friday 20th July 1923

Medical Invasion: Empire’s Doctors to Meet at Portsmouth: Programme Outlined: Within the next few days, Portsmouth will be invaded by prominent doctors from all parts of the world. From July 20 to 28 the annual meeting of the British Medical Association will be held in this town, and extensive preparations have been made to give the delegates and the lady friends a welcome worthy of the borough. … … (long description) … … The Section of Medical Sociology meets all day on Friday, July 27. The subject under discussion is “Mental Deficiency in its Social Aspects, (a) education, (b) segregation, and (c) sterilization.” The President of this section is Dr. H. B. Brackenbury, and one of the Vice-President’s is the Right Hon. Sir Leslie Scott, K.C., H.P., Dr. William Potts, of Birmingham and Mrs. Ellen Pinsent, of the Board of Control, will open the discussion … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Portsmouth Evening News: Tuesday 17th July 1923

Empire’s Doctors to Meet at Portsmouth: Programme Outlined: Within the next few days Portsmouth will be invaded by prominent doctors from all parts of the world … … The Section of Medical Sociology meets all day on Friday, July 27th. The subject for discussion is “Mental Deficiency in its Social Aspects — (a) education, (b) segregation, and (c) sterilisation.” The President of this Section is Dr. H. B. Brackenbury and one of the Vice-Presidents is the Right Hon. Sir Leslie Scott, K.C., H.P., Dr. William Potts, of Birmingham, and Mrs. Ellen Pinsent, of the Beard of Control, will open the discussion; Dr. Henry Devine, of Portsmouth, deal with segregation; Dr. C. Macfie Campbell, Director, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, U.S.A., will speak on “The Methods of Organisation for Supervision of Mental Defectives”; Dr. Joseph F. E. Prideaux. Headquarters Mental and Neurological Inspector, Ministry of Pensions, and Miss Evelyn Pox, Honorary Secretary of the Central Association for Mental Welfare, will deal with the educational aspect; Dr. W Norwood East, Senior Medical Officer, Brixton Prison, will discuss “incidence of Crime and Mental Defect; and Dr. A. R. Gibbons, of London, will speak on The Sterilisation of Mental Defectives.” Apparatus for menial tests and an exhibit of’ work done by mental deficients will be shown in the Pathological Museum, and a film illustrating the education of mentally defective children will be shown by Miss Evelyn Fox in the Exhibition on Friday afternoon. Members of the public who are especially interested in this subject may obtain invitations on request from one of the Honorary Secretaries, Dr. Arnold Lyndon, O.B.E., Grayshott. Hindhead, Surrey, and Dr. A. 11. Roberts, Commercial Road, Portsmouth.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949