| Description | <p>Manuscript. Letters between 1906 and 1912 about collecting head measurements of 380 "mentally defective" children and 100 "normal" children in Birmingham; informing that extreme cases of hydrocephaly and microcephaly will be noted; on format of the measurement cards; sympathy over W F R Weldon's death and wishing her brother Robert J Parker and Karl saw more of each other; asking for family history cards of the children from special schools to be returned; about Karl's criticism of the accuracy of the measurement data and clarifying the organisation and execution of the investigation; on cases presented as evidence to the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded [sic]; on the observation and care of children with severe learning difficulties as a social issue citing evidence of criminal and immoral behaviour; and letters from 1929 to 1930 in which a lecture by K Pearson is organised for the Board of Control staff on the subject of "The Heredity Aspect of Mental Deficiency", which took place in March 1930 at the Galton Laboratory.</p>
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<p>Also encloses papers comprising offprints of "Social Responsibility and Heredity", read by Mrs Pinsent at the Church Congress, Cambridge, September 1910, and reprinted from the <i>Official Report of the Church Congress</i>, (London: George Allen and Sons, 1910); "The Results of Special School Education as Shown in the Report of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded" by Mrs Hume Pinsent, read at the Troisième Congrès International d'Hygiène Scolaire</i>, Paris, 2-7 August 1910; a printed scheme to be sent to private and public bodies asking them to send resolutions to the Government demanding legislation; the Report of the Special Schools After-Care Sub-Committee presented to the Education Committee, 24 June 1910, issued by the City of Birmingham Education Committee; and a copy of the "Memorandum on the Mental Defect Bill".</p> |