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Brain Damage
2 remain in Centre
2 Total
Epilepsy
2 in employment
2 Total
Drug Addiction
1 in employment
1 Total
Senile Dementia
1 re-admitted to Centre
1 Total
43 TOTAL
The Composite Table of Outcome
18 Left to take up open employment having stayed more than
three months.
10 Discharged themselves, usually too ill to benefit from the
facilities offered by the Centre.
5 re-admitted to hospital.
3 Transferred to Remploy (one subsequently in open employment.
1 Referred to another Centre.
1 Excluded.
5 Remained in the Centre throughout the year.
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A comment is needed on the controversial question of placing
the mentally subnormal adult in a Centre devised for mentally ill.
Out of the eight mentally subnormal members half have succeeded
in open employment and the fifth is undergoing further training.
This high success rate is due to the stringent selection of candidates
and the policy of not admitting those who would more appropriately
be placed in the Adult Training Centre. Furthermore
the proportion of mentally subnormals must be constantly watched
so as not to allow for the slowing down of the pace and thus
taking off the pressures in every re-habilitation programme.