Save the Children: Sir, the Recent Physical Deterioration Committee, after hearing the evidence of 68 expert witnesses admitted “that as the result of the evidence brought before them, they were convinced that the use of alcoholic liquors was a most potent factor in physical deterioration” … (long letter on the issue including statistics) … They know that Dr. Potts, late Medical Investigator of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded, says “He attributes 41.6 percent of the defective children found by Mrs. Hume Pinsent and himself in Birmingham to alcoholic parentage” … (continues) … Sugden Lund, Secretary, Band of Hope Union …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949