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 pro…

- 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…

- 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

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

- 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 ha…

- 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 …

- 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 compa…

- Alice Hamilton