WOOD-ALCOHOL POISONING
MANY FATAL CASES IN AMERICA. qNow York, December 27. Reports indicate that C 5 persons have died in Hartford (Connecticut) and Chicopee (Massachusetts), Chioago and New York, as the result of drinking wood alcohol, surreptitiously sold as whisky. It is announced that 42 deaths occurred in New York in 1919 from wood-alcohol poisoning, and also that countless persons have been blinded throughout tho country from tho same cause. Federal and officials throughout the nation aro taking extraordinary steps to stamp out tho salo of wood alcohol, and to inform tho public to bcwaro of illegal liquors. Several men who have sold wood alcohol as whisky have been arrested at Hatford and charged with murder.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 80, 30 December 1919, Page 5
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118WOOD-ALCOHOL POISONING Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 80, 30 December 1919, Page 5
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