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Alice Hamilton Quotes

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Scientist Quotes
Category:
American Scientist Quotes
Year of Birth:
1869
Year of Death:
1970
Nationality:
American
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Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
Alice Hamilton

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.
Alice Hamilton

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
Alice Hamilton

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
Alice Hamilton

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.
Alice Hamilton

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
Alice Hamilton

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
Alice Hamilton

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.
Alice Hamilton

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.
Alice Hamilton

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
Alice Hamilton

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
Alice Hamilton


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