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The Second

Welfare

adults, mainly

them.

Institute, which is one for disabled

takes in disabled people over the age of 16

who have been staying in the Municipal Children Welfare

Institute, and disabled people aged above 16 from local

cities and towns whose families are unable to take care of

The Third Welfare Institution is a psychiatric

hospital and mainly takes in the "three have-nots" mental

patients, mentally disordered persons amongst demobilized

retired soldiers, and those from local cities and towns

families are

care for them. (The three

have-nots refer to

have nobody to rely on, no

and

whose

unable to

those who

source of income and homeless.)

With the development of the welfare service, the

quality of the staff working in the welfare field has

undergone a marked improvement. At present, welfare units

directly under the municipal offices of the Ministry of

Civil Affairs have 451 different technical cadres,

representing 73% of the total number of cadres. Among

which 17 are senior ranking staff, 53 middle ranking staff

and 381 junior staff. The administration and the quality

of service of various welfare

Basically, the objectives of

services have been achieved.

function of providing nere

the present

support and

of minicipal

institutes have improved.

orderly administration and

Furthermore, the previous

subsistence has been changed,

trend is to develop towards the combination of

rehabilitation. Currently, 90% of the inmates

institutes participate in

rehabilitation

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