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Danger Of Cheap Gas

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
March
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The popular cry íor cheaper gas luis called upa still more important issue. It luis been noticed that the number of deatlis by asphixiation by gas has oí late been rapidly increasing. In Boston alone 24 people died from this cause in 1896, which is over a third of the total number of such deaths in the district for 18 years. The iucrease of mortality is claimed to be coincideut with the use of water gas, whicli is more insidious that the old kind. When coal gas alone was used, there was a chance of resuscitation in cases of partial asphyxiation, but the water gas poisons the system in a very brief time. One of the worst points about it that it is comparatively devoid of odor, and it can escape from a pipe, be diflused through a room and poison people before it can be detected. It contiüüs 40 to 50 per cent of hydrogen, 30 to 40 per cent of carbonic oxide, and about 10 per cent of petroleum or naphtha gay. Carbonic oxide is one of the most active of poisons, producing, wheu inhaled, speedy death, and it is estimated that one volume of it diffused through 100 volumes of air totally unfits it to sustain life. It is suggested by one of the health authorities of Boston that the addition to water gas of inore petroleum gas would greatly diminish the danger by imparting to the mixture a very powerful odor. Tlie mat Ier will probably be made the subject of a legislativo inquiry, and in future gas corporations may have to give i gunraulee as to the composition of tlie iras which they sell to the public. - St. Louis Globe-Democrat . Coldwater with 29 clubs, more or less social in nature, has just organized a new one, "The Old Maid's Club." Twenty-nine charter members have adopted a coustitution and by-laws which deliberately wipes the earth of all mankind. Great results are expected from this new club.

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Ann Arbor Courier