Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1928.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Date:
1928
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1928. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    average clinic attendance has increased from sixteen to seventeen, during the year. The social problems continue to be those of improv¬ ing the patients' housing, school and work conditions whenever necessary and the making of satisfactory arrangements for hospital, nursing home or convales¬ cent care. These problems are not limited to the car¬ diac patient alone but extend to the other members of the patient’s family as well. In the past year fifty-seven members of the clinic were referred to suitable agencies for advice and as¬ sistance in finding employment. The Placement Bureau of the Public Schools; the Rehabilitation Sec¬ tion at the State House; the Clearing House of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union and the Division of the Handicapped of the Industrial Aid Society, were among the agencies giving definite help in this way. During the summer, twenty-seven cardiac patients were sent to either convalescent or vacation homes for the rest or recreation prescribed by the doctor. The social worker in the Cardiac Clinic again this year cooperated with the Simmons College School of Social Work in discussing for an afternoon with four¬ teen members of the Summer Institute, the technique of social work in the Cardiac Clinic and the casework problems arising within it. A survey of several aspects of the social situation of one hundred boys and girls in the Cardiac Clinic has been made during the past year and the following facts were ascertained. The families varied in size from one to eleven members with the income ranging from $15 to $98 as shown in the following table: