the department in collaboration with the Hong Kong Society for Re- habilitation at Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong. Employment was found by the department for forty-one persons, mainly in factories.
MENTALLY HANDICAPPED
76 The need for expansion of facilities for the care and training of mentally subnormal persons is something that becomes daily more evident. Over a hundred children are cared for in voluntary institutions such as the Po Leung Kuk and the Precious Blood Orphanage. The departmental day centres for forty mentally retarded children each at Tsan Yuk and at Tung Tau Resettlement Estate operate to capacity. The Aberdeen Rehabilitation Centre mentioned in paragraph 66 has a specially designed unit for sixty children which is in process of increas- ing its capacity to eighty-four. The alterations have begun. The British Commonwealth Save the Children Fund's recreation centre for retarded children has over thirty children attending daily at Wang Tau Hom. The Hong Kong Association for Mentally Handicapped Children and Young Persons has plans for setting up a fresh class in Kowloon for about ten retarded children.
77 Established in August by two missionaries for children of the severe grade, the Home of Loving Faithfulness which has a capacity of ten has eight children in care. Care of discharged mental patients is largely undertaken by social workers of the Mental Health Service of the Medical and Health Department, but additional casework services are provided for selected patients by this department, Lutheran World Service and other voluntary agencies who provide funds for rent, capital for hawking, and other form of aid. The Social Welfare Department also provides a limited casework service for persons of mild mental disturbance for whom compulsory treatment cannot be arranged. It found work for twenty-two such people last year. The New Life Rehabilitation Association, which was largely founded by former mental patients with the encouragement of the Mental Health Service of the Medical and Health Department, runs a hostel for discharged patients who are homeless or who for some reason or other need a period away from unsatisfactory homes. This facility is now severely overtaxed and other hostels are urgently needed to ease the pressure on hospital beds and to encourage a quicker return to the community.
78 Hong Kong sent six delegates to the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the World Federation for Mental Health, held this year in Bangkok.
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