“Mrs. Pallone is happy over the new baby even tho’ her husband has been injured and cannot work for some time.” Bronx, New York, 1930s
Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine
Lillian Wald emphasized that social conditions, such as dangerous workplaces, affected immigrants’ health. She wrote, “[w]hile the district nurse is laboring with the individual she should also contribute her knowledge toward the study of the large general conditions of which her poor patient may be the victim.”
