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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1979, PAGE il 1,000 unemployed imi hiÎtby area The number of clients unemployed and registered for work at thé Canada Em- ployment Centres in Ajax, Whitby and Oshawa for the month of August totalled 11,382, consisting of 6.361 female and 5,021 maie clients. This figure includes, 4,199 students. Placements in the three offices totalled 848 for the month, which compares to a total of 1,220 placements during JUIy. The majority of clients were registered in clerical, sales, service, xnaterial-handling, produet fabricating, assembling and repairing; and construction trades. During August, the grea- test employment opportini- ties existed in Accomodation and food services; personal services; retail trade; con- structioni and food and be- verage manufacturing. In August, there, were 44 agreements signed under the Canada Manpower Indus- trial Training Programn. As a' resuit, 50 people wil benefit fromn both training and' employment in Durham. At the end of August, there were 85 students in skill courses sponsored by the Canada Employment Centre and 35 people receiving aca- demic upgrading at Durham College. attitude towa ârd *heaithi.er. Back in 1919 when Whitby Psychiatnic Hospital first opened its doors,. no one coul- d have dreamed of the advances to be made xi mental health care. As it celebrates 60 years of servi 'ce, this respected facility is a tribute to these advances and to the heaithier attitude toward-mental illness. Fortuniately much of the fear of the unknown- has disappeared.,Gone are the days when the mentally il patient was simply "4put away." Out ofýsight'. Out of mmnd. Modem methods have mntroduced a new' dim'en sion to'the delivery of mental health services.At the Isame ti me, we have corne to recognie" mental illness for what is - an iliness to be treated like any other. What'better proof of this' than the.fact that -75% of the patients in Ontario's psychiatric ,hospitals, such, as Whitby, are there voluntarily. Ris attitude, which -is reflected in Ontario's Mental Health Act, along ýwith the impressive advances mintreatmentà4re clear indications of thetreendusprogrms owrdbettercontrol and -alleviation of mental illness.' For more information on the new approach to mental health in Ontario write: Health Resource Centre, OntariqMinstyofllealth, Hepburn B1ck Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M7A 1S2. Dennis R. Tinibreli Minister Ontario,