POISONED BY GAS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1922, Page 11

POISONED BY GAS.

MORE BRITISH CASES. DEADLY CARBON MONOXIDE. London, Feb. 15. Cases of gas-poisoning continue to be reported. A disturbing case occurred at Hull, where a market gardener and his wife were found dead in bed, with the house full of gas. This is attributed to a leakage in the main, causing a heavy outflow of gas, which permeated the soil under the house. Two female servants were found dead in bed at Southport, with the gas-jet half turned on. A trombone player of the Carl Rosa Opera Company was -found dead in bed at Preston, the cause being a defective gas tap. A Bournemouth business woman has also died in bed from the effect of gas fumes. At Alutcham, an out-worker was found unconscious in a scullery which was full of gas, and was rescued by the employer’s daughter, a girl guide of 15 years. “The only excuse for carbon monoxide is cheap gas,” says the Pali A'lall Gazette. “We have not got cheap gas. Why be poisoned?” The newspaper, replying to the gas companies’ suggestion that the matter is all a Press campaign, ■ declares that the danger of a high proportion of carbon monoxide in domestic gas was first pointed out by a wientific journal, and became a newspaper sensation only by reason of repeated cases o-f poisoning.