Special Mortality among Infants at Loughton, ining Rural Sanitary District

On the 22nd March 1878, complaint was made by Mr. Octavius Deacon, of Golding''s Hill, Loughton, to Mr. Secretary Cross, that a serious attack by skin disease of his own infant had resulted from the use for nursery purposes of violet powder, which on analysis by Mr. G. Jones, F.C.S., had been found to contain in large proportion white arsenic; and further, Mr. Deacon stated his belief that a large...