First report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into arsenical poisoning [1900] from the consumption of beer and other articles of food or drink.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Arsenical Poisoning
Date:
1901-1903
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Credit: First report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into arsenical poisoning [1900] from the consumption of beer and other articles of food or drink. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE EOYAL COMMISSION. EDWARD, R. CJiltoari) the (S^tienth by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith. ^0 Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved William, Baron Kelvin, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order ; Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Councillor Sir William Hart Dyke, Baronet; Our Trusty and Well-beloved Thomas Edward Thorpe, Esquire, Companion of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Principal of the Government Laboratory; Our Trusty and Well-beloved Henry Cosmo Orme Bonsor, Esquire : Our Trusty and Well-beloved William Selby Church, Esquire, Doctor of Medicine, Fellow^ and President of the Royal College of Physicians of London ; and Our Trusty and Well-beloved Benjamin Arthur Whitelegge, Esquire, Doctor of Medicine, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops, Greeting ! ^]i^kerC3;0 We have deemed it expedient that a Commission should forthwith issue to ascertain with respect to England and Wales ; (1) The amount of recent exceptional sickness and death attributable to poisoning by arsenic ; (2) Whether such exceptional sickness and death have been due to arsenic in beer or in other articles of food or drink, and, if so, [a) to what extent; {b) by what ingredients or in what manner the arsenic was conveyed; and (c) in what way any such ingredients became arsenicated, and (3) If it be found that exceptional sickness and death have been due to arsenic in beer or in other articles of food or drink, by what safeguards the introduction of arsenic therein can be prevented. #OiD knOlt) pe, that We, reposing great trust and confidence in your knowledge and ability, have nominated, constituted and appointed, and do by these Presents nominate, constitute, and appoint you the said William, Baron Kelvin; Sir William Hart Dyke ; Thomas Edward Thorpe ; Henry Cosmo Orme Bonsor ; William Selby Church and Benjamin Arthur Whitelegge to be our Commissioners for the purposes of the said Inquiry. ^nil for the better effecting the purposes of this Our Commission We do by these Presents give and grant unto you or any two or more of you, full power to call before you such persons as you shall judge likely 5237. Wt. 28817. 3,000-^7 /Ol. Wy. & S.