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This statement was approved by the Assembly at its October 1978 meeting and by the Board of Trustees at its December 1978 meeting upon recommendation of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Chronic Mental Patient. It was prepared by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Chronic Mental Patient.
