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Show Deaths from Lend Folsonhip. In the list of deaths from poisoning in Great Britain oil iu a single year niuetv-five. or over one-sixth, were caused bv lead Tho people of all civilized coun-; coun-; triss are in need of special caution concerning con-cerning the use of lead. Lead pipes, lead faucets, lead solder, and in many other forms, lead is a subtle and terrible danger. dan-ger. Thousands sutler from lead poisoning poison-ing who do not dio thereby. It should never be used, when by corrosion it can become an element in food or drink. Tho symptoms are so easily laid to other i causes that it can do serious mischief bo-fore bo-fore its presence is suspected. Its use in j rod precipitate as a solder ou pipes is I specially dangerous Next to lead, the ; cases of poison most numerous were from s opium, then from carbolic uciti Bolla- donna and aicliol. aconite, ehlorodyne j and hvdrochloric acid fn!lov it tlio list with nearly oq:iai p:-co For suicidal pur- pose carbolic acid wus used in forty-two ! cases, morphine, opium and laudanum in 1 forty -one. The fashion in suicide is very j variable. Globe -Democrat. |