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employment of discharged patients from Psychiatric hospitals and employers have been deeply sympathetic and helpful in accepting patients, who, because of their disability, are not always able to ^ork with maximum efficiency. Therefore, in a reduction of staff, even the most sympathetic employer ^'ght feel unable to employ them. It is hoped, therethat the Government might feel that registered disabled Persons might be excluded from any Selective Employment Tax and that the NAMH might use 'heir good offices in this respect. K. C. Bailey T?ne Vale Hospital Taunton. Somerset.