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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."

Dr. Girdlestone says, "When these cripples have been well treated, well trained, and well placed, our work is complete. They have a chance; it is up to them to make good if they can; and they generally do, for the badly crippled child is the best stuff in the world for courage and character."