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Show Dangerous Cargoes. A vessel with a cargo of poisonous) bulbs recently moored at Hobokenj About two years ago two stevedore died as a result of unloading such a vessel. They were asphyxiated by the carbonic acid gas generated by the ,bulbs in the hold. That led to the building of lntticework pillars reaching from the floor of the hold to the deck, these ucting as ventilators. A British doctor, writing in the Lancet, tells of ian experience qf his In trying to resuscitate re-suscitate two Chinamen who had gone down into the hold of a vessel laden iwlth oranges, gurllc, soy beans, sugar pnd cooked rice, and says the respiration respira-tion of the oranges and garlic In the ibsence of ventilation had replaced the oxygen with poisonous carbon dioxide. |