124 
Sale  of  Bichloride  Tablets. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
March,  1914. 
Suicides  and  accidental  deaths  from  non-scheduled  substances  reported  by  the 
registrar-general  of  births,  deaths,  and  marriages  for  England 
and  Wales  for  the  year  iqii. 
Poison. 
Acetanilide  
Acetic  acid  
Alcohol  
Ammonia  
Camphor  
Camphorated  oil  
Caustic  potash  
Caustic  soda  
Chloride  of  lime  
Chromic  acid  
Disinfectant  (?)  
Hartshorn  and  oil  
Hydrochloric  acid  
Liniment  (?)  
Mercury  (?)  
Methylated  spirit  
Nitric  acid  
Paraffin  
Pennyroyal  
Phosphorus  
Potassium  bichromate.  . . 
Potassium  binoxalate .  .  .  . 
Potassium  bromide  '. 
Potassium  permanganate. 
Saltpeter  
Sulphate  of  copper  
Sulphuric  acid  
Veronal  
Whisky . .  .  
Zinc  chloride  
Kind  not  stated  
39 
Total   99 
Suicides. 
Male. 
43 
Fe- 
male. 
Total. 
Accidental  deaths. 
Male. 
30 
2 
73 
2 
6o 
2 
I 
19 
83 
82 
68 
Fe- 
male. 
Total. 
47 
2 
I 
26 
I 
I 
2 
I 
I 
2 
I 
I 
2 
2 
3 
17 
i 
28 
ii5 
Total 
deaths. 
I 
2 
2 
22 
2 
2 
I 
3 
i 
99 
3 
2 
2 
4 
2 
10 
4 
4 
i 
3 
2 
19 
i 
i 
88 
297 
of  the  United  States  upward  of  5000  deaths  from  acute  poisoning 
are  reported  annually,  even  these  apparently  large  figures  are  sug- 
gestive as  being  comparable  with  those  included  in  the  appended 
tables  copied  from  the  report  of  the  registrar-general  for  England 
and  Wales. 
Corrosive  mercuric  chloride  was  introduced  as  an  antiseptic  in 
surgical  procedure  more  than  30  years  ago,  and  for  two  decades  at 
least  was  widely  known  by  the  popular  names  "  corrosive  sublimate," 
"  bichloride,"  or  "  sublimate,"  and  used  in  the  form  of  solutions  for 
a  variety  of  purposes.    This  widespread  use  led  to  its  employment 
