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Quotation from Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
“if it were a womanly task to go about in tenement houses in order to nurse the sick, it might be quite as womanly to go through the same district in order to prevent the breeding of so-called "filth diseases."”
Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter XIII, Public Activities and Investigations (Macmillan, 1910 (Project Gutenberg #1325))
Explaining to neighbors who thought garbage inspection was not a lady's job why she took the post.
Citation: "if it were a womanly task to go about in tenement houses in order to nurse the sick, it might be quite as womanly to go through the same district in order to prevent the breeding of so-called "filth diseases."" — Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter XIII, Public Activities and Investigations (Macmillan, 1910 (Project Gutenberg #1325)). (id twenty-years-at-hull-house-q6)
Portrait: ADDAMS, JANE 21664v (cropped2), Harris Ewing, publisher, Public domain.
