MEN KILLED BY FUMES.
GAS PRODUCES INSANITY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK. Oct. 31. Five employees of the Standard- Oil Company’s plant in New Jersey are dead through, inhaling tetraethyl lead fumes in experiments to increase the efficiency of. petrol. Forty-four other laboratory workers are under treatment. The gas produces insanity, and five, of the victims died in straight-jackets, being raving maniacs. Five of those under treatment are in a serious condition. Regarding the remainder, the hospital authorities say some- are suffering from ; headaches and others from mental disturbance and mild derilium. Other symptoms are low blood pressure and extreme nervousness. Physicians were at a loss at first liow to deal with the cases, but they now' believe injections of hpyosulphite soda are having a beneficial effect-. The ;New York Health Commissioner has now' prohibited the use. of petrol treated with tetraethyl lead, and similar action is expected elsewhere. State officials are holding an investigation.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 November 1924, Page 5
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