The Americanization of Tony
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Tony was my first social service case; the child had failed to attend the clinic regularly, and the hospital sent me into the crowded back street where he lived to visit his home and discover what kept him from his treatments. The house at the address given me proved to be a dilapidated, tipsy looking, two story affair, with a front porch that tilted rakishly forward, and a patch of front yard that was hard packed and bare. The place looked more like a shack in a mining village than a city tenement. An Italian woman sat on the stoop; three young children climbed or toddled about the porch and tiny yard. A shy, ragged, apparently undersized boy, whom I afterwards learned was Tony, stood in the doorway. When I advanced and timidly asked for Mrs. Sarsoni the woman on the porch rose and came toward me with a weary smile. As soon as I saw her I knew the cause of Tony's absence. Tony was soon to have a wee brother or sister. I talked with Mrs. Sarsoni and she explained that she would not be able to take Tony to the hospital until the expected baby was several weeks old, and that there was no one else with whom to send him, his father being fortunate enough to have regular work.
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