Water Gas Poisoning.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2105, 21 May 1898, Page 3

Water Gas Poisoning.

IB p, leader the other day dealing with ■idifferentillurain ants {par parenthese B observe our correspondent ‘ Light ’ Beaks of ‘luminauts’—the word is Hl n Webster ; but we are no better ■ as the form we use Bluminants ’ is marked absolete by Bb same authority); we referred to Now as we take it, BwSpn a as and water gas are B|lly, in their main principles, ©se B| the same thing, B did not know that Mr Campbdb ■1 : eo in work at the; H we snV.l feel inclined to B der him for of the fellowP ara S ra Pk from the Liverpool B sfcof-March 26, particularly drawing B< attention to the last sentence: BChehase of gas poisoning of a SwedBi' emigrant in a lodging house in I eat George Square investigated this ■ \k by -Mr Sampson, demands the i ous attention of the city authori--1 The medical evidence places it ctically beyond doubt that the case , , one of water gas poisoning. The y presented, according to Dr Paul, cisely that bright pink appearance ' ich is the speciaf mark of poisoning carbonic oxide, the poisonous in■dienfc ’ so largely present in water y- and in the., view, of the same extent authoritydhis ingredient must Ve bOen present in the gas inhaled rthe deceased in a fat; higher prortion than is to be found in ordinary 3.' Against this view of the case ist-in fairness be . set the fact that' V. room in which the deceased slept ih three other emigrants was very all, being less than 11 feet by .9, d had no fireplace, and only one jptilator open, and that the gas ngineer states that at the hours durig. which the men were in bed only oal gas was, ©r at any rate ought to iave been, sent through. the mains, iie.customary forma of the inquest :6;: hot seeni to have necessitated the ■erificatien of the engineer's statement >j'\ ascertaining which of the orders pven by him as to the night supply •Lpure coal gas had been duly carried ut; but this is obviously a veiy im-. iprtant feature in the ease, and ought a be placed beyond question one way r the other. The fact that will strike he public mind is that in a house sup-. died; frbin the Garston gasworks, vhere water gas is manufactured and hixed, one death and three .narrow escapes from 'death- by gas, abisohftig-taken place. In these dr-; uimstadcos the onus distinctly lies on ihe advocates of water gaa to show ■hat;deajth.was not due to - nyely quality of their?much tended- but strongly suspegtedliUnmih*