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Monday, September 10, 1073
SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT IN EMPLOYMENT OF DISABLED
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There was a slight improvement in the number of disabled people
who were employed during the month of August, when eight more were given
jobs than in the previous month.
Mr. Chan Shiu-wing, officer-in-charge of the Social Welfare Department's
Job Placement Unit, said this was encouraging and he hoped the position would
be even better in September.
For the month under review, the Unit placed 24 disabled people in
jobs in open industry, firms and within government.
They comprised two mentally retarded, three cured TB patients, three
blind, five formerly mentally ill patients and 11 cripples.
man,
One was given a job as a quality controller, one as a watchman, one
as a machine-sewing worker, one as a sales representative, one as a V repair
one as a clerk, one as a thread-cutter, one as an office attendant, one
as an inspection worker, two as messengers, two as packers, two as telephone
operators, two as deliverymen, two as assemblers and five as cleansing workers.
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