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There is need for at least two more such workshops in the County. For the noninfective
worker fit to do medium or light work, new employment is fairly readily
found by the local disablement resettlement officers of the Ministry of Labour and
National Service. If new employment necessitates special assessment or training this
can be provided at the Industrial Rehabilitation Units and Government Training
Centres managed by the Ministry of Labour, but at present all are outside the County
and for many Londoners this involves too much travel.
In present circumstances, therefore, it is still necessary to send disabled London
tuberculous adults to residential settlements such as Papworth (near Cambridge),
Preston Hall (near Maidstone) and Enham-Alamein colony (near Andover). At the
end of 1954, the Council maintained 78 men and women in training or in sheltered
employment at these distant institutions.