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16.
Great
importance was attached to prosthesis
rehabilitation aids, as there was an
production and other
estimated 7.5 million people in China who were physically
disabled. The Ministry managed 39 such factories and there
was an
institute for research(中国假肢科學研究。
Prosthesis
research and production in China were said to be
more advanced than Hong Kong.
Services for Mentally Ill Persons
17.
The
mentally ill were under the care of 3
different ministries, depending on the state of their
mental health
(a)
those violently disposed ( 武瘋子
) were
the responsibility of the Ministry of Security,
(b)
those
who could fully recover
responsibility of the Ministry of Health,
(c) those unlikely to recover
were
the
fully but were not
violent ( 文瘋子
) were under the care of
Ministry of Civil Affairs.
"Work therapy" was
for the
) were set
up.
emphasized and "Work Therapy Stations
Mentally Ill" (p Tito i If th