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| Picture No | 11076151 |
| Date | 1858 |
| Description | Cartoon, The Great Lozenge-Maker (poisoner) |
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Cartoon, The Great Lozenge-Maker - a Hint to Paterfamilias. An allusion to the Bradford Sweet Poisonings of 1858, as represented by a skeleton of death mixing sweets made with plaster of Paris and arsenic. It involved the poisoning by arsenic of more than 200 people in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, when sweets accidentally made with arsenic were sold from a market stall. Twenty-one victims died as a result. The event contributed to the passage of the Pharmacy Act 1868 in the United Kingdom and legislation regulating the adulteration of foodstuffs.
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| Source | Cartoon by John Leech in Punch, 20 November 1858 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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