LEAGUE OF NATIONS APPOINTS DR. HAMILTON TO HEALTH STAFF

Dr. Alice Hamilton, assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has been named expert adviser to the Health Committee of the League of Nations.

Dr. Hamilton was appointed a member of the Harvard teaching staff in 1919, and was the first woman member of the Harvard University faculty.

She graduated from the University of Michigan, and then did graduate work at Johns Hopkins and in Germany. She achieved world note for her work during the Chicago typhoid epidemic in 1902.

Dr. Hamilton has also done distinguished service on several state commissions, and also was in charge for 10 years of a health campaign on behalf of the United States Department of Labor.

Recently she has done work in Russia, and for the permanent health organisation of the League of Nations. Dr. G. A. A. Winslow of Yale Medical School was appointed as adviser with Dr. Hamilton.