ID# 1939:
Mary Dendy letter to Karl Pearson, about case of "Alfred D. aged 18 Feeble-minded" whose only work is "holding pigs whilst they are slaughtered"
Date:
Circa 1912
Pages: (1|2)
Source:
University College London, KP, 186

Mary Dendy letter to Karl Pearson, about case of &quote;Alfred D. aged 18 Feeble-minded&quote; whose only work is &quote;holding pigs whilst they are slaughtered&quote;

The Incorporated Lancashire and Cheshire Society For the Permanent Care of the Feeble-Minded. [centered double score] Hon. Sec.: Miss Dendy, M.A., 13, Clarence Road, Withington, Manchester. [indented score] Hon. Treas.: Sam Gamble, Esq., Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield, Manchester. [indented long score] Any further communications on the subject of this letter should be addressed to: Miss Dendy, M.A., 13, Clarence Road, Withington, Manchester. Telephone: 129 Didsbury. Alfred D. aged 18 Feeble-minded. Dear Professor Pearson, I send you particulars of this case just as they have come to me; I do not know whether they are sufficiently definite for your purpose. It is difficult to get as definite particulars for youths as for girls. The lady writing about this case is a Poor Law Guardian. She wants us to take the boy at Sandlebridge; but he is much over the age for admission. "About four months ago, he, his Mother and two sisters and two brothers came into N. Workhouse, while his father went two months for neglect of the children. The mother was just as bad if not worse, but the Magistrates thought she would be better in the Work-house than in jail. When they came out I tried to keep this imbecile lad in, but failed and nothing will induced the parents to put him back. The home, though better is still very dirty and unsatisfactory and the children especially the two girls of 14 and 12, rude and unmanageable. The lad is, no doubt, doing a lot of mischief and will do more. I heard rumours of his getting two or three girls together for immoral purposes and he is quite undisciplined; though he gave no trouble in the house being mild and quiet enough there. Since he came out he has no work except the humanizing task of holding pigs, whilst they [end]

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