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The object of the Industrial Rehabilitation Unit at Waddon is
to provide men and women who have had a long spell of inactivity
following illness, injury or any other cause, the means of restoring
them, under expert direction to their full working capacity and
giving them professional guidance, where there is need, about the
kind of work likely to be most suitable. The Unit is to a
considerable extent dependent upon the medical profession and
hospital staffs in recommending suitable cases for this course of
industrial rehabilitation. The Committee of Enquiry on the
Rehabilitation, Training and Resettlement of Disabled Persons
under the Chairmanship of Lord Piercy, C.B.E., in their report
published in November, commented that there are several important
and heavily populated areas without industrial rehabilitation units
and recommended that additional units should be supplied as soon
as possible."