Food and warm clothing for little children must be provided and follow-up work among the newly discharged patients will probably be doubled. Beyond the daily grind, they tapped their well-cultivated social contacts to forge alliances with other helping agencies, organizations, and potential benefactors. The Social Service Department was not the only branch of the infirmary to experience explosive growth. Pathology and Radiology Department records for tell the same story. Even after an assistant pathologist had been brought on board, the workload was still.