Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-27 | Page 22 | Gas Fumes Deadly, Warns Physician

OR GAS FUMES F ADLY ADL Y WARNS PHYSICIAN I raJ cases of at asphyxiation from obile gas fumes have recentlY recently reported report d in Chicago which the fans cans of that city have defined d as mortis m In these cases the vie vic were found seated In or standing i ide e their automobiles automobiles In garages overcome while ng adjustments to or testing the preparatory to taking the car carfie fie he road cementing on this new danger of ing on a motor car in a closed J e e Dr E. E D. D Enfield l says says that owner owner or private chauffeur should r l' take take the risk of confining himin himin him- him in the small private garage garage with to tor exhausting Into the air which as as' to breathe reathe If work must be H with ith the motor running the doors windows should be open t pro e d current of air as adequate yen yen- on in Is the only ony m means ans of e escaping cai ing fatal poisoning declares the phy- phy n. n Motor Exhaust Deadly the cases recently reported says Enfield death resulted from the thes J BIS s being confined in a room with dUng Idling motor exhausting Into the room As it would seem death Meath in these cases came too soon I after atter too short a period of combus- combus the result of mere oxygen of the air In the room a has been sought and ap- ap discovered in the carbon oxide gas which Is one of the of Incomplete combustion in soUne asoline motor just as it is in a stove In ordinary burning pro- pro in in either the motor or the stove ox oxygen gen of ot the air unites with the the fuel fuelin in the proportion of at atoms of oxygen to one of carbon fusing Cueing the comp comparatively harmless carbon bon dioxide Victim Little Warning However in the carbon monoxide I which results from incomplete I king ng of the charge of ot gasoline va- va there is a real and Insidious dan dan- THis gas is composed of one atom combined with one atom of ot yon and obviously the combination replace th the other whenever available oxygen supply is is' a little MIn Iii Iri the case case of of the gasoline eh- eh ui s condition might obtain as the I Mt of r poor carburetor adjustment jk explosions k of ot an oversupply of at bline bime on monoxide is a very active on It is the most poisonous is s conent conent consent con con- ent sent of ordinary lighting or fuel It is the poison polson which kills in traditional method of suicide with azier zier zier of charcoal the same which its work so quietly In coal poIsoning It does not cause a an n of suffocation at first so that v victims s rarely try to reach the open Tm me to save themselves rat rather er they quietly and easily into a u state stale of from which if it it last ff they do not return