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Wednesday, March 29, 1972
He commended the Association's increasing concern for "a small
hard-core group of residents" who were less active than their colleagues
as a result of the "residual, indelible mark the illness had stamped on
them." They required a much longer recuperation period to adjust to full
community life, and even then still needed some degree of supervision.
Mr. Lee referred to the Association's hosting of the 24th
Annual Meeting of the World Federation for Mental Health in Hong Kong last
November as "the most important single occasion" for the effective placing
of Hong Kong on the world mental-health map.
Before this success, the Association had organised the First
Mental Health Week in 1970, and it had been the prime mover of the South
East Asian Seminar on Education for Mental Health two years earlier.
But these were merely "isolated instances" of the Association's
efforts in calling the community's attention to the real problem of mental
rehabilitation, which had yet to be accorded the importance it deserved.
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