It is important to note that it was also during this year that the first Hospital Social Service work in America was begun. This was organized in connection with the Maternity--Dr. Dimock, Miss Lilian Freeman Clarke, Miss Elizabeth Greene and Miss Mary Parkman coöperating. And this year was further marked by the opening to the New England Hospital medical women of some of the clinics of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. CHAPTER XXXII _Dr. Zakrzewska goes to Europe for her first vacation in fifteen years--Letter to Dr. Sewall from Switzerland--Dr. Helen Morton is appointed third attending physician to the Hospital (in charge of the Maternity)--Tragic death of Dr. Dimock--For the first time the Hospital has a woman on the staff as attending surgeon, Dr. C. Annette Buckel being thus appointed--The Hospital is represented by exhibits at the Centennial International Exhibition, the plans and elevations of the new buildings receiving an award--Mrs. Cheney writes from Europe of the interest taken over there in the Hospital, and the looking toward it from England, Scotland and Germany for encouragement and help. (1872-1877.)_ The addition of a third attending physician at the Hospital (Dr. Helen Morton who took charge of the Maternity) and the continued increase in the number of younger doctors still further relieved Dr. Zakrzewska and enabled her in the summer of 1874 to go to Europe for a long-deferred but much-needed vacation. The constantly growing demands in both Hospital and private practice upon her professional skill, and in the community at large upon the many gifts of her broad personality, became at last a breaking strain upon the vitality so grievously depleted by the pioneer work of these first fifteen years in Boston. Midway in this resting time (August 19, 1874) she writes to Dr. Sewall: My vacation is half over, and just now I am enjoying a short stay in the queerest little old town and ditto hotel between the Bernese and Wallis Alps. Such a rest from work and care I have never had in all my life! My head is getting steady once more and, although I am not yet as quiet in my upper regions as I ought to be if I want again to work hard, I am certainly very, very much better than I was at the time I started from Boston. I have had only slight headaches, never sufficient to lie down, and I am much less confused, in spite of the three languages around me. We travel in a very leisurely way, different from tourists, for we stop and sojourn wherever the fancy happens to take us. In this way, we have seen a great deal of Switzerland, and have enjoyed the usual places of interest as well as the out-of-the-way places such as where we are now.