Category: History - Modern (1750+)
A Special Mortality among Infants at Loughton, in the Epping 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...