Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1878 — Poisonous Paints and Wall Papers. [ARTICLE]

Poisonous Paints and Wall Papers.

Dr. H. C. Bartlett, in a paper read at the Cheltenham (Eng.) Congress of the Social Science Association, said- “ Until the autumn of last year I was unable to form any accurate idea of the frequency of cases of severe illness occasioned by poisonous paints and wallpapers. I had. it is true, within my own professional experience, known of several fearful outbreaks of lead-poi-soning among the work-people employed in white lead works, and among painters and others working in an atmosphere heavily laden with saturnine vapors given off in the process of applying such paint, or during its drying. I had also been consulted in a great many instances respecting wallpapers, which were suspected of being colored with arsenic, in consequence of illness of the type recognized as arising from these sources. But when I was requested by Mr. Jabez Hogg, the well-known surgeon and microscopist, to furnish some particulars of the more striking cases I bad investigated, to be laid before Government, I was astonished to find that during the last eleven years I have traced back.,no less than 123 cases of illness attributable either to the diffusion of carbonate of lead (common white paint! or to arsenical or antimonial coloring matters in paint or on wallpapers. Others have been working in the same field of observation, and of those who have witnessed the danger of permitting the use of poisonous pigments and wall-papers, I could mention the testimony of eminent medical men, analytical chemists and others who have recently protested against the employment of such deleterious substances.” “NSw IDrlbanm will continue to be the capital of Louisiana, the proposition to remove the seat of government to Baton Rouge having been defeated by some 5,000 votes. Btv.Wk. H. enxrMAX, Pastor of M. B.| Church, Georgetown. d/C., write*: “Having bad an opportunity to test the excellent quai. itiesof Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. I hesitate not to say, it I* the best remedy 1 bare ever used in my family.’’