It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.
Alice HamiltonIllinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
Alice HamiltonIt 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