Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1915 — Arsenic in Carpets. [ARTICLE]

Arsenic in Carpets.

In looking for the source of disease among the members of a household, one would hardly suspect the carpets of the domestic establishment, but a German physician, Dr. Kuttner, has done this, to his own satisfaction. He had his attention called to five cases of anemia and the like, the oause of which he could not determine, but the disease disappeared upon the removal of the carpets from the house. A farther investigation disclosed the fact that the carpets in question contained arsenic in great quantities, which probably entered into composition of the dyes. Traces of arsenic were also found in the blood of the persons who had been afflicted.