INTOXICATION BY NAPHTHA FUMES.
A Boston letter in the Chicago Tribune says;—The latest female vice is intoxication by naptha. It is not swallowed. The fumes of it are simply inhaled, inducing, so the inebriates say, a particularly agreeable exhiliration. Not even hasheesh, it is understood, begets more fascinating dreams or more gorgeous visions ol splendour. The girls in the rubber factories, of which there are a weal number in Boston and its neighbourhood, are greatly addict ’d to this form of drunkenni ss. In such establishments naphtha is used in enormous quantities to cleanse the rubber, being kept in big boilers closed against the air. To the valves of these boilers the young women employees readily obtain access and breathe the exhiliration therefrom, some unlucky accident having betrayed to a chance experimenter the abominable secret. The notion is said to have been brought originally from Germany by emigrant laborers in petticoats. Now the manufacturers propose to put a stop to the evil by keepiug the valves carefully locked.
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Western Star, Issue 1370, 10 July 1889, Page 3
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