The use of the term 'rehabilitation' is, in itself, evidence of the more constructive approach to the treatment of handicapped persons which has become increasingly evident in recent years. It first found expression in voluntary effort, but State action followed, stimulated by the two world wars which both accentuated the need for devising measures to save young disabled persons from years ofhopeless dependence and frustration, and at the same time created a situation in which all available manpower, however unpromising, had to be made fit for use and used. Hence, in 1941, Mr. Ernest Bevin, then Minister of Labour, started a scheme for the training and resettlement of disabled persons, and two years later set up an Interdepartmental Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. George Tomlinson, to consider, and make proposals for, the introduction of a comprehensive scheme for the rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons.