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How England Does It: Britain's Approach To The Problem Of "Crippledom"
Prejudice against employment of cripples is usually strong at the outset but as someone has said, "experience proves that as a general rule, the physically disabled, if given suitable work, will equal in efficiency the normal worker, and sometimes surpass him, since the limitations produced by disablement tend to concentrate energy and interest with greater force."...
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Title: How England Does It: Britain's Approach To The Problem Of "Crippledom"
Creator: Grace K. Townsend (author)
Date: August 1933
Format: Article
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives
Location: pp.3-4
Keywords: Children; Cripple; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Economics; Education; Employment; England; Government; Government Agencies; Hospitals; Institutions; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Physical Disability; Policy; Polio; Prejudice; Public Health & Welfare; Rehabilitation; Social Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Vocational Rehabilitation; Warm Springs Foundation
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy
Funding Support Provided By: NEC Foundation of America