Meet the Local Associations: 1: Cambridgeshire

. 1^08 saw the beginnings of what ?s now the Cambridgeshire Mental Welfare Association, one of the Local Associations affiliated to the N.A.M.H. It was then that two members of the Cambridge Charity Organisation ^?ciety, Mrs. F. A. Keynes and the jion. Mrs. Horace Darwin (later Lady Darwin) conducted an inquiry into lhe number of feeble-minded children ?f school age in Cambridge. This showed that there were about 30 attending elementary schools who ?}ight be helped by special teaching. There was then no obligation placed ?n the local authorities to provide special schools or special classes for Mentally defective children and this, c?upled with the fact that there was n? Act of Parliament relating to the pare of older mental defectives, made lt seem desirable to form an association to concern itself with these Problems in Cambridge.