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.

Biography
Alice Hamilton was born in 1869 to Montgomery Hamilton and Gertrude Hamilton (née Pond) in New York City New York and raised in Fort Wayne Indiana. National Women's Hall of Fame.

She was a pioneer in the field of toxicology studying occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds on the human body.