Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons
H.M. Stationery Office. 9d.
The Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disable” Persons, under the chairmanship of Mr. G. Tomlinsofl< M.P., issued in January 1943, should bring encouf’ agement to social workers who have for many years been confronted by the plight of those who, although suffering from physical or mental infirmity, are yet capable of occupation but for whom occupation can neither be found nor specially provided.
The Report is particularly encouraging in that 11 envisages its recommendations as applicable not merely to adults and young people who have been injured through war service or war contingencies, but to who suffer from disablement, whatsoever its caus^’ nature or date of origin, and for the first time the princip’^ is enunciated that there is a national duty to see tha> persons who have suffered disablement are given an opp0’’’’ tunity of leading as full and as useful a life as their di$’ ablement permits.
The need for the establishment of further clinics witf1 psychotherapy facilities and of a neuro-psychiatric service on a regional basis with adequate follow-up facilities is recommended, as is also a comprehensive system ot After-Care in relation to the rehabilitation of patient discharged from Mental Hospitals.
It is satisfactory to be able to record that since issue of this Report, the Ministry of Health has institute^ an Enquiry into the incidence of neurosis and the existing facilities for its treatment in Out-Patient Clinics.
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