What the new Social Service Department may have lacked in staff and resources, it more than made up for in know-how, networking, and ingenuity. Impressively, in alone, Helen Campbell and her assistant saw and advised 1, patients in their office; sent 95 children or adults to the countryside to convalesce; distributed pairs of free glasses and 18 artificial eyes; sent 17 patients to other institutions, including Batavia Institute for the Blind, St.