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Domestic News
August 11, 1888
Wichita Eagle
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas
What is this article about?
Cheap cretonne fabrics for room decoration, examined in London, contain high arsenic levels, with none of 44 samples free; some distinctly dangerous, especially reds, browns, blacks.
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Poison in Cheap Cretonne.
Cretonne of the cheap sort used for decorating rooms turns out to be as arsenically poisonous as green wall paper. Out of forty-four samples recently examined in London none were free from arsenic, three had only faint traces of it, twenty-one had large traces, eleven were classed as very bad, and nine were called "distinctly dangerous." One specimen yielded nineteen and one-half grains of white arsenic to the square yard. The greens and blues were the least harmful while reds, browns, and blacks were heavily loaded with the poison.
-New York Sun
Cretonne of the cheap sort used for decorating rooms turns out to be as arsenically poisonous as green wall paper. Out of forty-four samples recently examined in London none were free from arsenic, three had only faint traces of it, twenty-one had large traces, eleven were classed as very bad, and nine were called "distinctly dangerous." One specimen yielded nineteen and one-half grains of white arsenic to the square yard. The greens and blues were the least harmful while reds, browns, and blacks were heavily loaded with the poison.
-New York Sun
What sub-type of article is it?
Disease Or Epidemic
What keywords are associated?
Arsenic Poison
Cretonne Fabric
London Examination
Health Hazard
Where did it happen?
London
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Primary Location
London
Event Date
Recently
Outcome
out of forty-four samples, none free from arsenic; three with faint traces, twenty-one with large traces, eleven very bad, nine distinctly dangerous; one yielded nineteen and one-half grains of white arsenic per square yard; greens and blues least harmful, reds, browns, and blacks heavily loaded.
Event Details
Cheap cretonne used for room decoration found arsenically poisonous like green wallpaper; forty-four samples examined in London.