Word: deneen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the Mines. In 1910 she got her chance to do something about it: Illinois' Governor Charles Deneen appointed her to a state commission to investigate "occupational diseases." Her commission did not know where to begin because there was not even an official list of dangerous occupations, so Dr. Hamilton compiled it as she went from factory to factory. She could not demand admittance, but most managers let her in. The woman doctor brashly invaded the man's world, plowed through unventilated, fume-filled plant after plant. She took air samples, studied the ubiquitous dusts, noted...