1905

Richard Cabot introduces medical social service at Outpatient Department of MGH (Lubove18, 24ff.; Williams, 468-70). Cabot was concerned that treatment recommendations of the outpatient department were not being carried out, and hoped casework would contribute to development of preventive medicine. “Tuberculosis became a focal point of concern in hospital social work” (Lubove, 29); Cabot influenced by MGH’s Joseph Pratt, who began classes to improve home care of poor TB patients in 1905 (Williams, 469).