Luigi Carozzi (1875-1963)
Being still a student he collaborates with Devoto even before the foundation of the “Clinica del Lavoro”.
He is one of the protagonists of the 1906 Congress and Permanent Commission of which he has been the secretary without interruption from 1906 to 1954. He is the author, between 1905 and 1913, of remarkable health enquiries on working conditions carried out from the “bottom” in collaboration with the “Società Umanitaria” and some trade unions.
In 1908 after a long stay in Brussels at the Labour Medical Inspectorate, he describes the organization and operation of Labour Inspectorates in the different European countries.
In 1910 he is elected councillor in the city council of Milan. In 1914 he is appointed Head Labour Medical Inspector at the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade causing his leave from the “Clinica del Lavoro” of Milan.
In 1921 he is summoned to the ILO of Geneva at the League of Nations where he will continue to work even once retired (1939). He edited at least two versions of “Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety” circulated world wide.
In 1940 he is summoned to hold the chair of occupational health at the Faculty of Medicine of the Geneva University.