Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22

abroad. A great many of the for
cign fabrics are full of arsenic. l
believe that the foreign goods that
contain arsenic are 10 to ] when COM
pared with those made in this coun-
try.
II I'M in favor of a commission
which would decide what amount of
arsenic should be used. When we
cannot determine the amount to be
used without e%ndangering life l think
that the Legislature should deter
mine"
DIR. Francis II. Brown, of the Chill
dren's Hospital, next spoke as fol-
lows:
Several years ago I had a large
number of cases which resulted in
finding the presence of arsenic. Then
some persons grew well on being re-
moved from certain rooms, and grew
worse on being taken back. The very
insidiousness is a part of the danger,
and is only discovered by eXamina-
tion and study.
1--WE do not ask that the use of ar
senic be prohibited, but that it be so
to a dangerous amount. We are not
fighting against the trace of arsenic,
but the amount of color.
"We find paper-hangers frequently
affected with sores on their hands,
face, and affections of the nose, which
no doubt is due to arsenic.
"a sample of paper referred to in
1872 contains S 67-1OO grains of ar
senic to the square inch. Here is n
Showing a sample) with over five
grains of arsenic to the yard, not
Kindergarten, but wall; here is a card
which belongs to the %dispcnsary. and
here is Il cloth, plum color, worn by
n of our prominent physicians who
was very susceptible to arsenic.
81 cannot tell you the amount
which should be used to the square
yard, but should imagine that l-5Oth
of a grain would be safe.
oval paper on ten years will not
give off yearly onc-tenth of its ar
senical contents, because there are so
many things to consider. The first
year more arsenic will begiven Off than
in the second, because the coating of
the first protects the second in IL
measure. The danger is growing less
each succeeding year as far as guam
tity is concerned, but not as
effect, but the charge is by no means
the less.
This room surrounded by paper
will give off arsenic until you take
off all the paper. AS long as the pa
per remains upon the wall it is Just
as dangerous as ever; that is, you
shovel sand from a certain place,
there is sand there until the sand is
all removed. AS long us the pigment
remains the danger is not dimin-
ished."
DIR. James j. Putnam said:
1.-The testimony thus far presented
only covers a small portion of the
State. l don't care to say anything
in particular as to the arsenic in pa-
pers, but these papers which 1 have
here Showing a number of slips) l
would like to pass around to you. I
examined a number of samples re-
Gently and found no arsenic. l have
samples which contain twelve
drachms, and are accordingly very
dangerous.
"We find the digestive system af-
fected, the eyes and the nervous sys-
TEN, without necessarily exhibiting
other or ordinary symptoms.
"Within the last two months two
such cases have been treated in the
Massachusetts Hospital. They were
paralyzed to such an extent that they
could not work. One was from tags
used by an expressman and the other
from wall paper"
DIR. E. w. Abbott, of the State
Board Of Health, was the next called.
He said:
"There vas one cast reported in
1883, in which the person was seri-
ously Ill, due to %arsenical poisoning.
There are other methods of getting
arsenic into the system besides in
haling. The case l speak of is Il
servant girl in Wakefield, who was
employed in picking up scraps of pa
per. She showed all the symptoms
Of arsenical poisoning, and, on exam
ination, the wall paper showed in
dications Of the poison. The poison
ing was caused by the girl handling
old paper which had been taken from
the wall and burning it up in the
stove. She inhaled the fumes or
smoke and thereby suffered the same
as though she had taken the poison
into her system in the ordinary way.
II know a case where paris green
was manufactured and the leaves of
the trees about the factory dropped
of just the same as they would in
the fall. The time, however. was
the spring. Within the distance of
300 feet every tree was stripped of
its leaves. 1t was due to the meth
DDS Of manufacture which allowed
the paris green to escape, and being
waited by the wind was carried to
come distance. At our suggestion a
change was made, the result of which
was 10 do away with the evil. A
large portion Of paris green is arsenic,
probably half"
DIR. Charles P. Putnam said of the.
subject under discussion:
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