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Eat and Be Poisoned
Klallet, Arthur | October 12, 1932 issue

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The article presents information on poisoning. Six thousand poisonings and seventy deaths occurred in England in the year 1900, from beer containing small quantities of arsenic. Three hundred French sailors were poisoned early in 1932 by wine contaminated with arsenic. A girl, aged seven was killed by arsenic fumes from the dye in moldy wallpaper. Six persons were poisoned in California in 1931 by mustard greens sprayed with lead arsenate. A four-year-old girl, in August, 1932, died eating sprayed fruit.

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POISONING; DEATH; BEER; ARSENIC; LEAD arsenate; CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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