Miss Lillian D. Wald, founder of the Henry Street Settlement and the most outstanding Jewish social service worker in the country, died shortly before midnight last night at her home here after a long illness. She was 73. Messages of tribute came today from leaders in many walks of life.
Miss Wald whose settlement has attained world-wide fame since its humble beginnings in the New York East Side 47 years ago, had never regained full health after an operation late in 1932. In May. 1933 she relinquished the place of head worker at the settlement and in 1937 gave up her last official burden when she resigned as president of the settlement’s board of directors.
During recent years she had kept in contact with the settlement and its Nurse Service and a wide variety of organizations and interests from her Westport home, House-on-the-Pond.
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