Keep Poisons Carefully Marked And Out Of Way
(By the Department of Health) Many a child has suffered or died because poisons have been left within easy'reach, or been administered hurriedly in mistake for something else. Adults have had their share of misfortunes with poisons, too. It’s nearly always because bottles have been insufficiently labelled or marked with a warning, or have not been kept in a proper cabinet or cupboard out of reach of childish fingers. If poisons are in bottles, stick pins in the cork, or tie a piece of distinctive material round the neck. In other containers, mark them boldly with a big red cross. If there’s something unusual about a bottle or container, people will naturally study it more closely—and that second look at a bottle might save a life. Where there are children, no poisons should be left where they can clamber up and get them. The most common household poisons are carbolic acid and phenol, lysol, iodine, caustic soda, ammonia, caustic potash, kerosene, and bichloride of mercury—in the form of mercury antiseptic tablets or corrosive sublimate tablets. Then there are dangerous drugs common in many households: sleep inducing preparations and mixtures for relieving pain such as opium, veronal, luminal, chloral hydrate. There are acids such as sulphuric, hydrochloric and oxalic. And don’t overlook such common materials as garden spray mixtures and poisons to kill rats, rabbits and other pests. Keep them all boldly laballed and out of the children’s reach.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 23, 20 February 1948, Page 6
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246Keep Poisons Carefully Marked And Out Of Way Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 23, 20 February 1948, Page 6
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