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In round figures there are 11,000 epileptics in public mental hospitals, 3,000-4,000 in institutions for mental defectives, just under 4,000, who are neither insane nor mentally defective, in colonies and residential schools, and an unknown number, probably a considerable one, in public assistance hospitals and institutions. How many are living in the community is not known.
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