Show dangerous cargoes A vessel with a cargo of polso nou bulbs recently moored at about tuo jears ears ago two stevedore steve dorci I 1 died as a result of unloads unloading ng such 0 4 vessel they were asphyxiated by the carbonic add acid gas goue generated rated by tha bulbs in the hold that led to tha the building of latticework pillars reaching from the floor of the hold to the deck these acting as ventilators A british doctor writing in the lancet tells of 0 an experience of his la in trying to resuscitate two ono who had gone down into the hold of a vessel laden with oranges garlic soy beans sugar and cooked rice and sas the respire tion of the oranges and garlic in the absence of ventilation had replaced the oxygen ox agen with poisonous carbon dioxide |