The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-13

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city SAYS the amount paid during last
year was over S6s0,O Mr.. Angel in.
Inmates that some of this water con
tanned lead poison, and may have been
taken from wells which receive the
drainage Of cess-pools. He says he has
evidence that over 30 per cent. of all
the milk sold in at least two of our large
cities is adulterated before it reaches the
consumer. Largely from this cause,
doubtless, results the enormous death
rate of children in the cities.
1t would naturally be supposed that il
the pure article could anywhere be
! found, it would be in the matter of
drugs. Yet Mr.. Angel says he was in
formed by an eminent doctor OF Boston
that so abominable are the adultera-
tons of drugs in this country that often
the medicine physician orders for a
patient in extreme danger possesses on
| " quarter of the strength it should
have, because of its authorizations, and
in consequence the patent dies. A
wholesale drug dealer of Boston stated
that the authorizations of drugs was now
so great that it was almost impossible
to make living by the sale of honest
goods.
Thousands of tons of tn. meats of dis
eased animals, he said, areannually sold
in our markets, the detection of which
after they are dressed is amoS imPos-
sible.
If the statements MIR. Angel makes
in regard to arsenic are true it Is sur
prising that the known cases If arsenic
poisoning are not more frequent. DIR
Inc the year ending June 20,
1870, 2,327,742 pounds of arsenic
were imported into this cum
try, each pound of which confined
enough poison to kill 2,S0, perso's. 1t
is sold in our markets a Wholesale
price of two cents pounl, aD4 Is used
in wall papers, paper tffalns, lamp
shades, boxes, wrapping apers Tor con-
fectionery, tickets, cards ikindergarten
papers. artificial flowers, dried grasses,
eve shades. ladies' Ires goods, wells,
sewin0-silks, thresds, Stockings, gents
undprwear. s>cks, glOpS, hat Innings,
Loot and 5hoe Innings, paper collars,
bob. carriages, childrefs toys, colored
,dameled clothes, wool, silk, cotton and
leather goods, and in toilet powders and
candies. The case Of a child in Troy,
n. Y, was cited who ded in convul-
sions by taking arsenic from veil
thrown over its crib to keep off the flies.
The largest use of arsenicis in the prep
aration of our wall papers The poison
Gus papers are of all colOrs and prices.
There can be no doubt, Mr. Angel says,
that thousands of people in this country
are now suffering, and many have died,
from the effects of arsenical wall papers.
Lead poison is likely to become as
notorious as arsenic. Hundreds of
thousands Of people are now suffering
from lead poison taken from the water
they drink. But lead water-pipes are
not the worst form of lead poison. Many
vessels used in the kitchen are manu-,
featured from an alloy of tin and lead,
the latter being used on account of its
comparative cheapness. The alloy is
readily acted upon by acids, and salts
of lead are thus introduced into food.
Cases are known of children having died
of meningitis, fits and paralytic affections
caused by milk kept in such vessels.
The learned university chemist declared
the beautiful notified ware called " mar
bleized ironware, which has been
largely manufactured in the form of
cOffee-pots, tea-pots, milk-cans, sauce
pans, etc, to be alive with poison. The
cheap tinware now coming into daily
use in our kitchens, our diaries, etc.,
is composed largely of soluble lead. The
Of Chemistry advises the use
of sheet-iron instead of the tinware
found to be so extensively poisonous.
Mr.. Angel thinks that to remedy this
evil it will be necessary for
those anxious to secure reform, both
buyers and retail sellers, to form pro-
.ective health associations in the import
ant cities and towns, which should have
analysed the various articles of con-
The purchaser who finds he
has poisonous or adulterated article
should return it to the retail dealer, the
retail dealer to the wholesale dealer,
and he in turn to the manufacturer, and
demand not only his money but full
damages. The guilty party, he believes,
would be glad to pay and stop adulter-
lting. When such associations are ev-
srywhere to be found, the poisonous ar
icles will disappear from our markets.