Editing Alice Hamilton (section)

==Death and legacy==
Hamilton died of a stroke at her home in [[Hadlyme, Connecticut]], on September 22, 1970, at the age of 101.<ref name=Landmark/><ref name=NAW306>Sicherman and Green, p. 306.</ref> She is buried at Cove Cemetery in Hadlyme.<ref>Alice Hamilton is buried in the same cemetery where the remains of her mother (Gertrude) and sisters (Norah, Alice, and Margaret) are interred, as well as those of Edith's life partner, Doris Fielding Reid, and Margaret's life partner, [[Clara Landsberg]]. See {{cite book | first=Scott|last= Wilson|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|publisher=McFarland and Company, Inc. |edition=3d Kindle |page=2 (Kindle Location 19508) }}</ref><ref>Clara Landsberg, a close college and longtime family friend, studied in Europe with Margaret Hamilton for a summer in 1899. The daughter of a [[Reform Judaism|Reform rabbi]] from [[Rochester, New York]], and a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Landsberg became a resident at Hull House, where she was in charge of its evening education programs and shared a room with Alice. Landsberg eventually left Hull House to teach Latin at Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland, where Edith was headmistress. Margaret also became a teacher at Bryn Mawr School and took over as headmistress before retiring in 1935. (See: Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', pp. 141 and 257; and Singer, ''Adventures Abroad'', pp. 74–75.) Alice, who considered Landsberg part of the Hamilton family, one remarked, "I could not think of a life in which Clara did not have a great part, she has become part of my life almost as if she were one of us." (See Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', p. 197.)</ref>

Hamilton was a tireless researcher and crusader against the use of toxic substances in the workplace.<ref>Weber, p. 28.</ref> Within three months of her death in 1970, the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] passed the [[Occupational Safety and Health Act (United States)|Occupational Safety and Health Act]] to improve workplace safety in the United States.<ref name=Weber39>Weber, p. 39.</ref>