Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-11-22


grades, called soda grade, sugar grad,
and flour grade.
! A Boston sanitary commission, few
years ago, estimated that in that city
S5OO,OOO year was paid for water
mixed with milk; and this years re-
port of the Milk Inspector for the same
city says the amount paid during last
year was over S6S0,0OO. 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 80 per cent. of all
the milk sold in at least two of our large
cities is adulterated baforeitreaches 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 MIR. ,Ahgell says he was Inc
formed by an eminent doctor of Boston
that -abominabie- are the -aduirera-
tons of drugs in this country thai, often
the medicine a lphv&cian ofdefS for
patient in extreme danger possesses on
ly a quarter of the strength it should
have, beeause,Of is ladnltaatims, and
in consequence thes patient dies. "A
wholesale drug dealer of Boston stated
that the 'adulPrrtions Of drugs vas now
so great that 1t was almost impossible
to make a living by the sale of honest
goods. -
Thousands of tons of the meats of dis
eased animals, he saitl,are annually sold
in our markets, the detection of which
after they are dressed is almost impos-
sible nfT4E .iJU
If the statements Mr.. Angel makes
in regard to arsenic are true, it is sur
prising that the known cases Of arsenic
poisoning are not more frequent Dur
ing the year ending June 90,
1873, 2,327,74 pounds of arsenic
were imported into this coun-
try, each pound Of which contained
enough poison to kill 2 800 persons. 1t
is, sold in our markets at wholesale
price of two cents a pound, and il used
in wall papers, paper ciirtainss lamp
shades, boxes, wrapping papers for con-
fectionery, tickets, cards, kindergarten
papers, artificial flowers, dried grasses,
eye shades, ladies' dress goods, wells,
sewing-silks, threads, stockings, gents
underwear, socks, gloves, hat Innings,
boot and shoe Innings, paper collars,
children's toys, colored
enameled clothes, wool, silk, cotton and
leather goods, and in toilet powders and
candies, The case of child in Troy,
n. Y, was cited who died in cOnvul-
sions by taking arsenic from. a. veil
thrown overits crib to keep of the flies.
The largest use of arsenic is in the prep
aration of our wall papers. The poison
Gus papers are Of all .eolors 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 nrsenical 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-
fassnEei from aRsalloy of tin and le.sd,]
the hitter being used On account of its
comparative cheapness. The alloy is
readily acted upon by acids, and salts
II lead are thus introduced into food.
Clses are known of children having died
of meningitis, fitsand paralytic affectionsf
caused BY milk kept in such vessels.
The learned university chemist declared
the beautiful mottled ware called as mar
bleized irOnware," which has been
largely manufactured in the form of
coffee-pOts, tea-pOts, milk-eans, sauce
pans, ETC., to be alive with poison. The
cheap tinware how coming into daily
use in our kitchens, our diaries, etc.,
is composed largely OF soluble lead. The
Journal of Chemistry advises the use
of sheet-iron instead of the tinware
found tn he 50 extensively nnisnnnus.