Show Daily Health Service By Dy DR MORRIS DR-MORRIS MORRIS FISHBEIN EIN The death of nine young men at Dartmouth from carbon monoxide or oroal coal oal gas poisoning serves to focus attention again on the continuous hazard hazard haz- haz ard rd to health particularly during the winter vinter months from this cause Cases occur also in other periods of f the year but because windows so frequently are arc closed and ventilation so o difficult to control during the cold weather the number of or deaths invariably ably bly rises sharply with coming of winter The gas itself itsel is colorless and odor odor- lc c 3 It is produced when wood coal coke oke illuminating gas or gasoline are arc burned I If 11 the tho flame Is hot the gas gasis gasis gass is s burned more completely than when the ie flame is slow and has insufficient air aJr ir Small amounts of carbon monoxide cause ause headache and other symptoms large amounts produce death It i. i is well wen for most people to nize the early symptoms of or exposure to o thio gas If you get a headache or oreel feel eel faint nervous or irritable when working where there is a possibility of this gas go out into the fresh air at once and stay there until you feel fee When Hen you go out walk slowly and when you get out sit down quietly Do n. n not n-at t try to walk Th There re may not be enough oxygen in your blood to permit you OU to make any extra effort or r to exert yourself in any way Any extra exertion at this time is dangerous because it may bring on unconsciousness s. s If a per person n who wh is working in an atmosphere where carbon monoxide may be present p suddenly faints fain he should hould be taken into the fresh air at It once Put blankets over and under him and surround him with hot water bom bottles Keep him warm by some effort cf cf- fort ort or he may develop pneumonia Persons who have been bean asphyxiated with carbon monoxide gas esp especially are arc likely to get pneumonia If he has difficulty with breathing he the patient should be given artificial respiration by the manual method A physician should hould be called at once because the difference between life and death ma may depend on suitable attention to the heart and respiration The chief d domestic appliances involved involved involved in in- in the records ds of carbon monoxide monoxide mon mono oxide poisoning are heaters without flues used in bedrooms and bathrooms bathrooms bath bath- rooms room and occasionally a kitchen gas range or a hot plate Deaths have been reported among persons in closed rooms who use charcoal in a bucket for heating It is said that Benjamin min Franklin developed the stove and the furnace I and gave the patent rights to the world in 1750 because he realized the dangers dangers dan dan- gers ers from this gas I IThe The smoke from a coal fire contains various amounts of carbon monoxide depending on how hov free the draft may be The more the combustion of 01 the gas is interfered with the higher is the percentage of carbon monoxide The flue gas gas- from an ordinary furnace fur fur- mice nace will cause poisoning when this gas gets into the air This obviously is what happened to the boys at d Dart Dart- moo mouth I |