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POISONS IN THE HOME,
AGENTS OF DEATH IN EVERY FAMILY.
[BY E T. NEATHERCOAT, C.BE., J.P.,. President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1920-19241].
WHAT WOMEN READ.
[BY ANS STANLEY WRENCH.] What do women readi Having found an immense diversity of taste among my own friends, who range
from lovers of" sheik" fiction to students
Love in its title and it is constantly in You're only to have a novel with demand," one librarian told me. "Novol rending women go by the titles."
of labour reports, I-began to inquire at Thanks to the new law which came into leading landing libraries, According to force on January 1st, no prepara most librarians, women want, above all tion containing poison may be sold hyaelse, light fiction. Memoirs and anouy chemist unless its contents are clearly books of anecdates concerning high stated on the label. This is a useful placed personages come a good second. measure, but it will not be sufficient to safeguard the public entirely against the perils of ignorance and carelessness
At several big tookshops I was told According to the Registrar-General's that, although fiction certainly plays annual reports, the yearly expectation of part, the tastes of women are changing deaths in Great Britain from poisoning and that much more serious literature is read than before the war. Book-buying (through misadventure, negligence, or women select works dealing with philo intent) is about 1,000. That more fatal sophy, travel, and criticism, while verse and belles-lettres, at one time purchased accidents, suivides, and murders by for presents, are now bought by women. poison do not occur is regarded as al-t for their
OWD
enjoyment. most miraculous by those who know the appalling ignorance, carelessness, and Few women buy novels," said a well- negligence of the ordinary user of known bookseller. They borrow them poisonous substances and the conditions Then if the book is worth while, they under which certain poisons are stored buy it. Men buy novels to give to women, and employed. As the annual returns but if a woman comes in to buy a novel give only the deaths, the fatal accidents she has usually read it beforehand and alone are specified, and no account is likes it well enough to possess it." taken of mishaps and injuries not im-
mediately fatal. A moment's reflection will convines any thinking person that these accidents must reach ǹ large total each year.
very
are
*
Which certainly suggests prudence on
the part of women, but means less brand and butter for novelists. However, I was told that fiction-reading has been steadily on the increase among men since the war. The usual agents of death
"Men got the taste for novels then just carbolic acid (including lysol and as women got the taste for cocktails," similar disinfectants); mineral or cor-drily remarked the manager of a great rosive acids (spirits of salt, oxalic acid, book store. You will still find women vitrol, and nitric acid); ryanide of reading fiction, but most of them never potassium arsenic, and various kinds of buy books of any kind."" vermin killers.
two volumes.
mummy," she said.
Try to squeeze these in somewhere,
And the woman of the future At least twenty-five per cent. of the
At home we were packing for a month's fatal accidents and about fifty per cent. travel abroad, and I was deliberating of the suicides are credited to carbolicwhat books I daro make room for, when acid and disinfecting fluids containing my nine-years-old daughter brought me varying_proportions of the same relative chemical structure Lysol, a valuable antiseptic, containing fifty per cent. of cresols, appears to be favourite with the careless and with the despairing. The explanation is not far to seck, for almost every household in the kingdom contains a bottle of one of the numerous brands of disinfectant, deodorant, or germicidal fluids on the market. If effective for the purposes for which they are sold, all of them are virulent poisons capable of causing an agonising death.
DANOER TO CHILDREN.
The handiness of this material is favourable alike to mishaps and to desperate resolves, and it may be added. that the containers of some of these liquid disinfectants are not too dis tinctive in their shape and character. Hence the danger to inquisitive children and careless adults.
Spirits of salt and other mineral acids are largely used in industry as well as in many domestic operations, ranging from cleansing lavatory fittings to maintaining the efficiency of the ac- cumulator batteries of a wireless set. Several members of Parliament and public coroners have, on more than one occasion, called attention to the indis. criminate sale of poisons, specially mea tioning spirits of salt.
Oxalic acid, another popular cleanser with its near chemical relative, salts of lemon," takes a fair toll of lives each year. Possibly some of the accidents due to" salts of lemon" result from its very misleading name. There is a well-known story that when a chemist asked a woman customer why she wanted salts of lemon," she replied, "To Havour cakes! "i
amateurs Beem
to
Cyanide of potassium is a chemical largely used in photography, and possess a peculiar fondness for this poison. In the bands of an enthusiastic, unsuspecting school boy, making a first attempt in the art of producing pictures, the innocent- looking little white sticka of cyanide be come a source, of possible calamity to himself and to others. The camere provides a laudable hobby, but those who follow it should avoid the processes which introduce into the tome such bagefal chemicals as cyanide. It is safer to let your local chemist deal with all danger- ons photographic solutions.
FERILS FROM VERMIN KILLERA.." Arsenic requires almost a volume to itself. It is probably, the wident-used poison in industry, in agriculture, and in art. Peril lurks in the possession of this practically indestructible poison as a part of garden equipment." One could quote numerous instances of the home tragedies wrought by arsenical weed- killer during the last few years. At one, time a chemical fly paper containing arsenic was largely sold and used in the home. These pointed the mucens for the murders, committed by Mra. Maybrick and by Seddon, and in each case the murderer thought to escape detection owing to no record of purchase of the poison being in existence. "Arsenical.ly papers are still obtainable, though other effective means of fly destruction are available!
Mention of vermin killers Jende one to phosphorus Many of the preparations designed to rid the home of rodents are. pastes containing free phosphorus, and it must not be forgotten that vermin killers can be purchased by anyone from provision dealers and from oilmen! Strychnine forms one of the ingredients of some vermin killersentakoetta lag?
In the Poisons and Pharmacy Act of 1908, a fourth schedule was provided of what may be termed "household poisons'' -namely, ammonia, liquid containing more than five per cent. of free ammonia (it was assumed every housewife would. know what that meant 1); hydrochloric, nitric, and sulphuric acide“ äält of lemon," and liquid disinfectants contain- ing less than three per cent of phocols. (again assumed to be clearly under standable by the average housekeeper!). (Continued on next column.)
Stories and a much-worn copy of the I looked at them, Kipling's Just So fiad, and emiled. With the woman of the future fiction will be safe.
NOT FOOL-FROOT.
RUSSIANS TOLD OF CZAR'S
MURDER.
HEAR DETAILS FOR THE FIRST TIME.
Because of numerous legends circalat
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ing in Rassin that the Czar Nicholas and his family are still alive and Biding in England, awaiting a farsurable, moment to to Russin, the Fetrograd Araya Gazette of December 28th puk lished a two-column account of the Czar'a
July 18th, 1918 murder at Ekaterinburg on the night of
The story the Gazette, publishes relates which the Czar had hidden in the cork | how the Cheka agents discovered à nota of a milk bottle that he had given to sa of the nuns who had been supplying the family with food. This ran:
Now is the time to "effect our rescue, The day has arrived for our friends to unite. The Slav army is approaching „Ekaterinburg, only a few versty away. It is necessary to taka. immediate, ne- tion.-Nicholás.
A few days later a courier arrived from Moscow bearing the decres for the Czar's immediate execution. When Yarovski shot him the Czar threw his arms around his son and sank to the
floor, ercesing himself.
After the whole family had been shot
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the bodies of the Czar and his wife and children were brought outaide the town to forest, where the Commissar Wykoff the present Soviet Ambassador to Ppland-superintended their destruc tion with sulphuric acid and petroleum
The story of the Krasnya Gazette-Eas created a tremendous stir in Petrograd, whose population for the first time read the gruesome details of the execution. It is reported here that the Communists are just as displeased as the populace, and the editor of the paper has been ordered to resign.
***It will be noted that the details of given the Ekaterinburg crime now officially agree with previous accounts published in Britain
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After being in dispute for a long time the question of which tests for drunken. ness are the most réliable is to be Barometer thoroughly axamined by a strong com- Temperature mittee of medical and judicial experts. Hamidity, appointed by the Council of the British Medical Association.
The new law will at least make clear the contents of a poison bottle, but, however drastic our poison regulations, they will never be fool-proof. Look round your home to-day, and the chances are you will discover at least one of the household poison's" mentioned in this article. Perfiaps, pushed into a dark A number of other battles, there is a battle of disin-mittee corner, in proximity to fectant, the contents of which may be taken in error by a member of the household.
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is the freedom of supply for "industrial" Another loophole poisons regulations
uses. While elaborate regulations, sur- round the retail sales of a few grains by a pharmacist, yet, for commercial or sale supplies), a few hundred-weights industrial purposes (considered whole- Are readily and freely obtainable.
I am satisfied that the public interest and welfare would best be served by hold poisons and by confining the supply closer restriction of the sale of house- of such. dangerous domestic articles to pharmacists, who, it should be remember- ed, are a specialised body, called into being by the State in 1888 to deal in poisons, and whose particular education, training, and examination equip them with a full knowledge of the terrible potentialities of these commodities. A virulence of such household poisons is seller ateeped in knowledge of the the surest safeguard of the public weal, His professional responsibility causes him to take care that there is no in- discriminate distribution of these articles to the public-Daily Mail.
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Four representatives of the Medico-. Political Committee' (Dr. Fothergill, Mr. Turner, Sir Jenner Verrall, and Dr. Bone).á
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