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SYMHC Classics: Alice Hamilton and Occupational Medicine

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Secrets of the White Lead Works Commission

Alice wasn't supposed to identify any of the factories in her reports by name or give details that could identify them. She started a habit of telling the men in charge of the factories where she found concerns exactly what she felt was wrong. In one case, she had visited a white lead works that was opened with the intent of being safe but then there hadn't been a protocol in place to remove waste from production.

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