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who hadn't been in. We were getting all of the hospitals to line up and assist us. We were getting agreements with some of the social agencies that they might refer cases to us.

We established at least two, and I think three, pilot clinics. One was over at Hartley House, a settlement over on the West Side where I had lived at one time when I was working on that West Side survey of the Russell Sage Foundation and also working at Columbia. I knew the people at Hartley House because I'd lived there for a while. It was a good location because it was in the midst of a poverty stricken, but very prolific area. There were two or three hospitals within striking distance, among them being the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital. That's now been absorbed. It was an ancient foundation and a very, very good hospital - excellent. It was primarily a maternity hospital and a children's hospital. Of course there was the Roosevelt Hospital and the Vanderbilt Clinic of the Roosevelt Hospital. They specialized in maternity and child care. So Hartley House was a good location for a pilot clinic. They would give us room and so on.

We also got the cooperation of the Henry Street Nursing Association. We got one pilot clinic established way up town. That was in a premises operated, owned or leased by the Henry Street Nursing Association as their uptown headquarters from which their nurses went out. We just took another room and