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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

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Alice Hamilton
Age: 101 †
Born: 1869
Born: February 27
Died: 1970
Died: September 22
Bacteriologist
Pathologist
Physician
Toxicologist
University Teacher
Writer
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Many
Italian
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Chicago
Tenements
Foreign
Workshops
Worse
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Europe
Sections
Conditions
Polish
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Irish
Impossible
Quarters

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