Tag: GRO0245

Birmingham Mail: Thursday 24th December 1908

Care of the Feeble-Minded: Report to the City Council: … statistics and details … The committee have given a good deal of attention the recently published report of the Royal Commission the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded and submit for the consideration of the Council notes on some of the principal recommendations contained in this report, which have been prepared Mrs. Hume Pinsent, who was a member of the Commission. The committee, as a result of their consideration of the report, approves, generally, of the recommendations. They are authorised to say that the Education Committee also has expressed similar general approval. In the opinion of both committees, it is desirable that legislation for carrying the same into effect be promoted without delay, and they recommend the Council to pass resolution to this effect. 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Friday 18th December 1908

Birmingham Education Committee: … … Mrs. Hume Pinsent, who presented the report of the Special Schools Sub-committee, moved that £80 be expended in the purchase of furniture, to be made at once, for the new Saltley school for mentally defective children …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Friday 27th November 1908

Birmingham Education Committee: … Mr. Wiltshire’s dismissal:  … … Mr. Pentland said after what appeared to be an honest statement it seemed to him that the sub-committee was about to perpetrate a great injustice. It seemed to him that someone must be deceiving the sub-committee. Mrs. Hume Pinsent and Mr. Lacy defended the action of the committee and stated that the fullest consideration was given to the circumstances. …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Saturday 24th October 1908

Women on Public Bodies: Address by Mrs. Bracey … … Another case in which women had rendered distinguished service to the community was that Mrs. Pinsent, chairman the Special Schools Sub-committee of the Birmingham Education Committee and acknowledged authority subject of the feebleminded. When any question affecting feeble minded came before City Mrs. Pinsent was unable to attend to state their case before the Council, and the cause was likely to suffer, through the most experienced worker in that department of public work not being there to answer questions and use her personal influence on behalf the afflicted ones committed to her care. … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Sutton & Epsom Advertiser: Friday 21st August 1908

Royal Commission on the Feeble-Minded: … (review) … The original warrant named the Marquis of Barth as chairman, with William Patrick Byrne, C.B., of the Home Office, Charles e. H. Hobhouse, Dr. F. Needham, H. D. Greene, K.C., C. E. H., Chadwyck-Hedley, K.C., Harold Nelson Burden, W. H. Dickinson, Charles Stewart Loch of the Charity Organization Society, and Mrs. Ellen Frances Pinsent … (continues) …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Saturday 27th June 1908

Mrs. Pinsent in moving the adoption of the report of the Special Schools Sub-committee referred to the report shortly to be issued by the Royal Commission on the Care of feeble-minded Children. She spoke of the excellent services of the After-care Sub-committee and remarked that the magnitude of that voluntary work might be gathered when she said that there were 535 individual cases, each of which was visited three times a year. Statistics showed that very few of these were capable of remunerative work, and when they were, the amounts received were very low, the average being 6s 1d per week. The Chairman observed that the work done by the After-care Committee was extremely arduous and somewhat discouraging. They would all wait with interest for the report of the Royal Commission referred to by Mrs. Pinsent, though he did not suppose they would read the whole of it. No doubt they would be content with the eighty-three conclusions. The report was approved.  …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Friday 26th June 1908

Birmingham Education Committee … … In moving the adoption of the report of the Special Schools Sub-committee, Mrs. Pinsent quoted the statistics to show that out of 308 feeble-minded persons who left school, only 19.8 percent were earning wages at all, and only 3.9 percent were earning as much as 10s a week. The sub-committee therefore after seven years experience with defectives endorsed the opinion previously expressed that for a large percentage of the feeble-minded permanent provision was necessary. Mrs. Pinsent said, in view of this they must all recognise that for a large — of the defective care and protection would be necessary, not only during their period of training but during their whole lives. … …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Coleshill Chronicle: Saturday 13th June 1908

Midland Counties Asylum at Knowle: Annual Meeting: Appeal for more Help: The forty-first annual meeting of the supporters and friends of the Midland Counties Asylum for Feeble-minded Children was held at the institution, Knowle, on Friday …  present included … Mrs. Hume C. Pinsent … (continues) …

[see also Kenilworth Advertiser: Saturday 13th June 1908] [GRO0245 Devonport]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Leamington Spa Courier: Friday 12th June 1908

The Midland Counties Asylum: Annual Meeting at Knowle: The forty first annual meeting of the supporters and friends of the Midland Counties’ Asylum for the care and training of feeble-minded children was held in the Asylum at Knowle on Friday afternoon. The Marquis of Hertford (chairman of the Managing Committee) presided and those present included … Mr. Smith Ryland … Mrs. Hume C. Pinsent … … 

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birmingham Mail: Friday 27th March 1908

… Mrs. Pinsent, in submitting the report of the Special Schools Subcommittee, urged the need for increasing the number of mentally defective children at Sandwell Hall at one time from 20 to 60. The school, said Mrs. Pinsent, was actually in existence and was likely to be really successful and the accommodation was inadequate to the demands made for places. The present limitation fixed by the committee kept out many urgent cases in the city and the committee wished to be empowered to ask the Warden of Sandwell to give preference to Birmingham children when there should be accommodation at the school. Alderman Tonks described the proposal as an unwise one, and strongly protested against a suggestion which would involve a capital outlay of £36,00. The Chairman, while sympathising with the proposal, and hoping that in due course all those cases would be dealt with, said they should show their loyalty to the city Council by not hurrying too quickly. After some further discussion, Mrs. Pinsent agreed to accept a revision of the recommendation so as to provide for thirty children, and this proposal was eventually approved.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949