life after receiving adequate education, the provision of which is the responsibility of the Education Department. The severely retarded are the responsibility of the Medical and Health Department, partly because they are incapable of receiving any form of training and partly because they require constant care and attention. The moderate grade comprises those persons who are intellectually incapable of attending a normal school but are not so severely retarded as to require constant care and attention: their rehabilitation is a responsibility of the Social Welfare Department. Efforts are made to provide them with suitable training so that they can exercise reasonable care of themselves and make the fullest possible use of their residual capacity to learn and apply a skill. This form of training is provided in the Kai Nang Training Centre, the children's centre of the Aberdeen Rehabilitation Centre and the Tsan Yuk and Tung Tau Children's Day Centres, all of which are operated by the Department. In addition to these facilities the Po Leung Kuk's annex building, which was opened in March 1969 can provide residential care and training for 110 children, the Salvation Army Home at Cheung Chau makes provision for 24 children and the Save the Children Fund's Recreation Centre at Wang Tau Hom Resettlement Estate has 37 children in care.
73. Ex-mental patients are not forgotten. After-care and vocational training are provided in various centres, together with casework services for their families. Both the Mental Health Association of Hong Kong and the New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association provide hostel accommodation for ex-mental patients. The latter also runs a farm and a sheltered workshop.
74. Blind persons voluntarily registered with the Department stand at 5,386. The visit to Hong Kong in October 1969 of Mr John WILSON, CBE, Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, did much to stimulate re-thinking in the training and employment of the blind. For them the department provides club activities, sheltered work and vocational training in the Tsan Yuk Social Centre, the Princess Alexandra Community Centre in Tsuen Wan and at the Tung Tau Resettlement Estate. The Hong Kong Society for the Blind also provides training and sheltered employment for a total of 266 blind persons together with a hostel for 53 persons. For blind children who are prevented from entering a normal school the Ebenezer School and Home for the Blind and the Canossa School for the Visually Disabled between them provide sufficient school places for all known blind children in Hong Kong.
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