SMITH COLLEGE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL WORK

To the Editor:  —May I call the attention of your readers to a new opportunity for the intensive training of medical-social workers—the new Smith College Training School for Social Work?Every hospital of importance in the country now employs or knows it ought to employ social workers to attend to that fringe of nonmedical needs that surrounds certainly 40 per cent, of the patients in free hospitals. Medical problems are so closely enmeshed with mental, moral, financial, industrial, racial and domestic problems, that we really cannot cure most of our hospital patients (and especially outpatients) without the help of the right sort of woman who will help us to understand and to mitigate the mass of ignorance, fear, bad habit, resourcelessness and poverty which still weigh them down even after they have been scientifically diagnosed and treated.Such a woman must first be born to the job and then trained