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ALLEGED NEGLECT OF TEN PUPILS.

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Mrs. Hilda Caroline Trimm Fearn, principal of Merevale High School, Bickley Park Road, Bickley, was last month, committed for trial at the Old Bailey on a summons taken out by the N.S.P.C.C. for neglect ing ten of her pupils, aged between five and nine years, in a manner likely to cause them unnecessary. suffering or injury to health.

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"Disgusting" Conditions, Miss Frances Ethel Privett, who gave her age. as nineteen, said she was employed at the school from January to June of this year as assistant matron."

When she went to the school she found that some of the children were in a disgusting state and were suffering front iingworm: No déctor attended them and they were not treated in any way.

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Did she see to it i-No...

Mr. Waddy (for the prosecution):

Miss Privett said that Jorce Budd. one of the children, was ill in bed for a week with measles, and she

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Miss Privett said that she looked after the measi scuses, and the other children at the same tine.

sent for, bliss Privett said, Mra- The day Mr. and Mrs. Budd were Fearn was not at home. She bad gone to the Derby.

iness Reported. Questioned by Mr. O'Malley, "for the defence, Miss Privett. denied" that she represented herself as being

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agreed that she had,

school under her sister, who was She served for a time at the matron.

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Mr. O'Malley: Neither you nor your sister reported the ringworms? -We did report it. Mrs. Fearn told TO-DAY & TO-MORROW us they were just little spots.

Was

Mias Privett said that when Mrs.. Fearn told her and her sister, the matron, to go, they said they would not leave until the children had proper care.

No More Silent Films Speaking from his personal ex- Mrs. Fearn did treat Glyn fone" perience in Manchester as 12.11 of the pupils], did she not f-Yes, Exhibitor and as the Exhibitors but in wrong way.. said:" You may take it from me nothing wrong with the ointment, national president, Mr. Stephensonment, she put on 1-There

What was wrong with the oint

that the talkies have come to but Mrs. Fearn used to wash the stay. They are a better entertain-and rub the place sore,

head twice a day with soda water ment than silent films and the pub lic insists on having them. Neither in England nor in America, he proceeded," are silent films now being made, and I should say that in six months the supply will be exhausted, except that very small halls may continue to secure a silent film-such outlying halls, I mean, as will take stuff off the shelf."

There was

brief period after the talkies first arrived when the public indicated some distaste, Mr Stephenson said, but now they were commonly accepted, and audiences at cinematograph exhibits were steadily increasing. That was the uniform experience of exhibitore..

There are, he declared, people attending picture balls to day than ever before."

Es

more

She said, in reply to Mr. R. W: James (the chairman of the Bench), that there were no facilities for isolating the children.

Mr. Frederick Buckland, an in- spector of the N.S.P.C.C, said he saw Mrs. Fearn at the school, and told her that a complaint had been- made about a child named Joyce. Budd being neglected, and that he. understood that the child had died.

Doctor Called In. Mrs. Fearn made a statement in which she said that three of the children were suffering from meas Mr. Stephenson attributes this les, and the called in Dr, Hull on partly to the definite improvement May 27, and he had visited daily of the entertainment. Perfested with the exception of one day. The. mechanism and a desire to appeal child Budd was taken poorly about to British ears here, he holds, re- the Thursday or Friday of the pre- sulted in a softening of the Ameri-vious week. She kept her in bed, can speech, whilst British products but did not call a doctor, were also much improved :** If our On Monday, June 2, as the child English producers would produce seemed off-colour, she asked Dr. more work of the standard of Hill to see her. On Wednesday, Under the Greenwood Tree.” and June 4, Mra, Fearn added, she went Hookogatangkada Beeby daghadhechien

we have nothing to Tege Th'terate tinge at sie moon, ler matter of improvements, he pro- Privett, and her husband gave in- phesised that before long all the structions for the child's parents to talkies would be on the sound on be sent for film" principle, thereby removing any risk of discord when the picture and the sound on diso were not perfectly synchronised.

e

Dr, Franklin was consulting doctor to the school, but she owed him a bill, and that was why she did not call him in."

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