The Church Congress: The Treatment of the Feeble-Minded: The church Congress at Cambridge yesterday discussed social responsibility with reference to the feeble-minded. Dr. G. Shuttleworth (London) advocated more special schools for mentally defective children, the segregation in industrial colonies of feeble-minded adults, and measures to prevent illegitimacy among them. Mrs. Pinsent, a member of the Royal Commission on the Care of the Feeble-Minded pointing out that the undesirable classes of 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. The Bishop of Ripon deplored the decreasing birth rate among the vigorous and intelligent, upheld the sanctity of marriage, but advocated restraint of marriage amongst the unfit. … …
[see also: Nottingham Evening Post: Wednesday 28th September 1910 and Derby Daily Telegraph: Wednesday 28th September 1910 and others]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949