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advice, help and the assistance of agencies - either government or private - which could help them out of their situation. The name, of course, came to my mind because of what they used to do at Bellevue Hospital. The first “after-care” service was established here. They call it just that - “after-care” service. The theory was that when a patient was discharged from Bellevue Hospital that didn't end his problem. He went home, as a sick man or a weak man or woman in convalescence, to a really very badly damaged household or family - damaged by the length of the illness, by the cost of it, even though he might have been a free city patient, by the lack of his wages during the time the family was deprived of his earnings, or by the lack of the mother's care if it was the wife who was ill. There were a lot of other things. There were a tremendous number of unattached men and women who went into the hospital and came out without a place to lay their heads. There was nobody to look after them. They came out sometimes with prohibition on the kind of work they could do or the amount of work they could do - “Take it easy now.” Take it easy, nothing. They couldn't eat if they didn't go back to a good, full-time job.

So the “After-Care” Service was a service which found solutions to family problems and personal problems, either by introducing them and attaching them to the private