Arsenical Wall-Papers.
Once more an outcry has arisen concerning mysterious illnesses which have eventually been traced to ansenical wall-papers. There is an erroneous idea that brilliant green is the only colour that is dangerous in this respect; but as a matter of fact, arsenic may be present in colors of many other hues. In the sanitary and unsanitary houses exhibited at the Health Exhibition, the latter was purposely hung with arsenical papers, and green was conspicuous by its absence; while in the sanitary houses, green was present in abundance, but without any help from arsenic. Householders can easily protect themselves in this matter by observing two rulesr—the one is, to require a warranty from the paperhanger that the paper supplied is free from the poison; and the other is, to have every shred of old paper stripped from the walls before the new paper is put on.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1702, 3 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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148Arsenical Wall-Papers. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1702, 3 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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