The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-17 00:00:00

POISONING BY GREEN PAPER-HANGINGS.

We briefly noticed • day or two since the death,
am mentioned in die Iteghtrar-Gemears report, of Clarence

W. fiitesa of Wilain Thackersh Fay., of Beres-
ford ifja, egad three years and • half. The
Lamest $ .4Maßa of the case, and u the subject is
asset esuilunible bapurtaboe we place them before Our
maim

The midical atimedeet of the family stated that be was
celled to visit the child on Thursday wonting, the let
indent, being Informed that it was in • tit. On bin
arrival the convulsions had ceased, but the little boy
was in a semboometeas state. He learned that the child
had felt ,hilly, and had been sick, had refused his
breakfast, and. therefore, had takes nothing since his
supper on the previous evening. He had fallen from
the rota two or three days previously and there ins
a very slight bruise apparent on the fiirshemL In the
evening the symptoms seemed to be ennewhat relieved by
the remedies administered, but during the night be became
inceseively restless ; and another child (a little sister)
being also seized with convulsions, followed by violent
*creaming and copious dysenteric discharge from the bowels,
the medical gentletuau was again sent for, and on snivel
found the child ant affected in • elate of collapse. Think-
ing the appearances suspicious, and the more so because
three more before both these children bad been almost
simultaneously attacked in a similar manner, he began to
earth more minutely into the cauess likely to have given
rise to these seizures, and discovered that they had, during
the last few days, been playing with their toys iu the cup-
board of the brealjfast quota, which room was papered with •
green flock paper • that tweet three days previously they bed
boon around by h'elpiin to dear out one of these empboards,
zed that the little ligbed rucked • piaos of lace which he
found amongst the bias sad toys there. These circum-
stances seeming to 'infirm his suspicions, be directed the
evacuations to be preserved, and sent them to Dr. Letheby
for analysis. Meanwhile wary effort was made by the ap-
plication of warmth, administration of ammonia, and con-
stant supplies of warm milk to rally the little fearer, but
of no avail. Alternations of repose and violent titanic con-
vulsions continued during the day and he died thirty-eight
hours after the eomntesmemeot of the attack. A pest aserteat

examination was performed, and the stomach With in; eon.
tents, part of the lien, sad the sigmoid flexure of the
colon, were forwarded to Dr. Letheby, and at the
Milne time partials of the green paper. Dr. Letheby'e
report wee ma follows : The paper le coloured
with arsenide of copper, or &hassle's green ; sail it is so
loosely attached to the surf:we that it brushes off moat
readily. The quantity of poisonous pigment amounts to
nearly one-third the weight of the paper, and therefore
it is highly dangerous iu its nature. I hare exandoed the
stomach, and had that it contains distinct evidenoss of
arsenic ; so also do the liver and the evacuations ; but the
quantity of the poison in the lest two is not nearly so larp
as that in the stomach." The Coroner remarked that he
and a son had experienced headache from sitting in a roma
hew with such paper. The jury rektreed a verdict to the
West thee Clarence William King lad been peioned by the
ithalation of arsenical tames which had esaaped ban the
peas paper of a certain sitting-room, and tried the nom
teetarer of such paper had been guilty of vary tanker earl
culpatie conduct.

" Mr. Frederic Jones has published a set of
Stereoscopic Views of the Interior of the Chapel Royal of IL
GeorgsVe, Windsor. They me of remarkable merit. The depth
of load dark colonnade., with the simile obscurities sad sod-
ilseSsi Seabee of Ilaht, le rendered with a Oddity So mean seeb
squelbsi by anything we herr ever seen in stereoecopes."—Athe-
emu. June 20, is% " Highly interesting and valuable."—Dmitr
Wows The eerie. complete as) scot hoe on rroogo,oLll.loo4-
odkeorder far re., or two maniples for 94 II end
kw esportatlon —Frederic Jones. lea, 'Word street. Imudes.
nearly opposite hood stnat.—iadiertnenicot I