Staffordshire Association for Mental Welfare: “The shortage of institutional accommodation and the acute difficulty, therefore, in finding vacancies is a matter of great concern.” This statement was made in the report presented at the annual meeting of the Staffordshire Association for Mental Welfare, held at Stafford, Lord Charnwood (chairman of the Mental Deficiency Committee of the County Council) presiding … (discussion of numbers) … The Mental Deficiency Act: Mrs. Lavendar was nominated to represent the association on the council of the Central Association … … Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Commissioner of the Board of Control, gave an address on the work of the Mental Deficiency Act. She acknowledged the valuable assistance given by the voluntary associations of which there were some 40 or 50 in the country, Staffordshire being not the least. She emphasised the value of cooperation between these associations and the parent body, and with regard to mentally defective children in industrial schools said the only guarantee that they would receive continuous care, help and training was that the managers of these schools should cooperate with the voluntary associations and the local authorities in the matter. At present it was almost impossible to get young people out of mental hospitals because there was no room for them in mental-defective institutions. This accommodation was greatly lacking in Staffordshire, but she understood they contemplated such a provision, and it was one of the problems before them in carrying out the Act.
[see also Lichfield Mercury: Friday 29th May 1925 and similar in Staffordshire Sentinel, Wednesday May 27th, 1925]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949