28 
POISONS : THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTION. 
DEATHS FROM POISON IN ENGLAND AND WALES DURING THE FIVE 
YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 1916 —continued. 
Accident or 
Negligence. 
Suicide. 
Murder. 
Total. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
Brought forward 
397 
250 
930 
769 
6 
3 
1333 
1022 
Strychnine, Nux Vomica, and 
various Organic Poisons. 
Strychnine, Nux Vomica 
16 
13 
24 
25 
2 
42 
38 
Aconite...... 
4 
3 
2 
1 
6 
4 
Nicotine ..... 
2 
• • 
3 
3 
5 
3 
Acetanilide .... 
2 
• • 
• • 
# # 
2 
• . 
Antipyrine ..... 
1 
• • 
• • 
• . 
1 
Yew Leaves ..... 
1 
• • 
1 
• • 
2 
Colchicum ..... 
, , 
1 
, , 
1 
• . 
Aniline Oil ..... 
, , 
1 
, , 
1 
• . 
Creosote ..... 
, # 
1 
• • 
1 
Cantharides ..... 
1 
• • 
1 
• • 
Food-poisoning Ptomaines 
257 
220 
• • 
• • 
• • 
257 
220 
Carbon Monoxide .... 
4 
4 
Indefinite . 
327 
231 
345 
228 
i 
1 
673 
460 
Total . 
1005 
719 
1307 
1028 
9 
8 
2321 
1755 
4076 
Mat. 
Female. 
Deaths from all causes 
1,336,699 
G,342,437 
The population in 1912 was 
estimated as ... 
17,672,985 
18,866,651 
The population in 1916 was 
estimated as ... 
15,000,000 
19,500,000 
§ 22. It is interesting to arrange the definite and more common 
poisons in the order of their fatality, as in the following list, from which 
the important fact is deduced that bad or changed food is accountable 
for more deaths than oxalic acid, carbolic acid, or the cyanides. 
Antimony ......... 3 
Caustic Potash.3 
Paraldehyde ......... 3 
Hyoscyamus ......... 3 
Cocaine . . . . . ... . . . 3 
Chromic Acid Salts ........ 4 
Salts of Load .......... 6 
Triona .......... 6 
