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to me, Mr. Kaltman, that I want you to be the first to know that I suddenly began to feel very much better. I left the hotel, as you probably know, and I came out here to Connecticut. I've been staying out here with a cousin that I knew and now I'm going to be married. I'm perfectly well, Mr. Kaltman. I can walk. I'm completely cured. I wanted you to know it.”

She really got over it. I'm sure that it was the way that Ann Goericke handled her. She gave her an incentive to start on. She moved her away from the hotel where everybody had been loading her with flowers and gifts. She moved her to a much simpler place where everybody was working. It was full of working girls. There was an elevator, of course, but there was nobody wasting sympathy on Stella. That helped her out a bit.

That was a striking case, but they were very good in all these family adjustment cases. I always regarded that service as a great contribution to the welfare of society.

The medical work of the Workmen's Compensation Bureau was always difficult, because a great deal of the judgment of the referees or the commissioners in a claim depends on the medical testimony. It's an unfortunate situation. The claimant very rarely has any medical testimony that he can offer independently. If he's been injured, it's the duty of the insurance company - primarily of his employer, but





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