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the country. However, other countries have adopted this scheme, and from all those seen
by the writer, those in Melbourne and, in particular, in Perth, Western Australia, are
the finest examples. The hostel for tetraplegics in Perth is combined, like that at Stoke
Mandeville, with sheltered employment facilities.
Industrial and professional resettlement
Even in the writer's first statistics of traumatic paraplegics of the Second World War,
139 out of 186 (74-7 per cent) discharged to their own homes were gainfully employed,
the majority of them (68-4 per cent) in full time work (Guttmann, 1953). This satis
factory result was continued throughout the years, and Table 44 (page 632) shows the
employment statistics of the writer's first 3,000 patients.
FIG. 270. Assembly work in factory.
