{"id":6237,"date":"2016-09-16T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thecompliancecenter.com\/?p=6237"},"modified":"2020-01-29T13:42:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T18:42:35","slug":"poisoners-handbook-forensic-science-gave-birth-modern-safety-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecompliancecenter.com\/ca\/help-center\/articles\/poisoners-handbook-forensic-science-gave-birth-modern-safety-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poisoner\u2019s Handbook \u2013 How Forensic Science Gave Birth to Modern Safety Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Modern Forensic Science<\/h2>\n
\"Dr.

[Dr. Charles Norris, New York City’s first chief medical examiner]. [Between 1920 and 1932?] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2013650279\/. (Accessed September 02, 2016.)<\/p><\/div>If you love TV shows like \u201cThe Making of a Murderer<\/em>\u201d or \u201cForensics Files<\/em>\u201d, you\u2019ll probably be intrigued by a book titled The Poisoner\u2019s Handbook<\/em>. But rather than serving as a guide to criminal mayhem, this book traces the growth of\u00a0modern forensic science in the U.S.,\u00a0concentrating on\u00a0the contributions of Dr. Charles Norris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Norris was a visionary of his time who reformed the New York City Medical Examiner\u2019s office from a political plum into a modern instrument for protecting the public. This meant protecting them not just from the occasional thug or greedy heir lurking with a bottle of rat poison, but against some of the largest industries of the time, who, in a combination of greed and ignorance, often poisoned their own employees and the public at large.<\/p>\n

Author Deborah Blum deftly outlines her heroes and villains. Charles Norris came from a family of bankers (his grandfather had negotiated the first loan to the federal government to finance the Civil War), and often would resort to using his own money to keep his office running. His expertise in toxicology served him well in finding new ways to detect chemicals and prove their role in the deaths of the unfortunates who ended up in his morgue.<\/p>\n

Playing Robin to Norris\u2019s Bruce Wayne was Alexander Gettler<\/a>, a forensic chemist from an immigrant family. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, the two shared a dedication to science and to justice, and were determined to ensure that the first would be always used in the service of the second.<\/p>\n

Science, Justice, and Poison<\/h2>\n

The villains were more wide-ranging. Some were the typical murderers associated with today\u2019s forensic science. Many were able to walk away from their crimes due to the crude science of the time. Mary Frances Creighton<\/a> was acquitted in the arsenic poisoning of her brother and mother-in-law, only to be convicted and executed years later for killing another woman. But each defeat sent Norris and Gettler back to the laboratory to discover ever more effective techniques for identifying chemical poisons.<\/p>\n

But the actions of individual criminals didn\u2019t endanger New Yorkers as much as some of the ostensibly law-abiding corporate citizens. The medical examiners were called in to investigate an oil company whose employees had nicknamed one facility the \u201clooney gas building<\/a>\u201d. As Blum describes it,<\/p>\n

\u201c[t]he men who worked there \u2026 had become a little odd\u2014moody, short-tempered, unable to sleep. They\u2019d started getting lost on the familiar plant grounds, sometimes had trouble remembering their friends. And then in September 1924 the workers started collapsing, going into convulsions, babbling deliriously.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Norris\u2019s investigation pinned the blame on a chemical manufactured in that facility\u2014tetraethyl lead<\/a>\u2014and identified its neurotoxic properties. The chemical was temporarily banned in New York City, until lobbying efforts restored it to a perceived \u201csafe\u201d status. Tetraethyl lead remained a common component of gasoline until concerns about the spike in environmental lead from car exhaust led to its phasing out in the 1970s .<\/p>\n

\"US

US Radium Girls Argonne National Laboratory<\/p><\/div>\n

Another chapter covers the plight of the “Radium Girls<\/a>“, who painted clocks and watches with luminous paint, unaware that the appealing glow came from deadly radium. Taught to use their lips to put a point on their brushes, the workers, mostly teenagers and young women, soon suffered from the horrific effects of radiation poisoning. Norris and Gettler proved that the very bones of the victims had become radioactive.<\/p>\n

Consumer Safety Regulations<\/h2>\n

The book gives a terrifying look at what a world without workplace or consumer safety regulations is like. By 1926, drunken drivers were already a menace (automobile accidents being the biggest killers in New York City that year), but elevators in high buildings were becoming death traps, taking 87 lives\u2014most simply because no one thought to put up barriers and warning signs in front of empty elevator shafts. Deadly carbon monoxide came not only from the exhausts of the newfangled automobiles, but was piped directly into many homes as \u201cilluminating gas,\u201d and killed many from causes as simple as a faulty fitting. Another deadly gas, hydrogen cyanide, was used as a fumigant against rats and insects,\u00a0with scant attention to its effects on humans nearby. Toxic chemicals such as arsenic could be easily purchased and used by members of the public who might or might not have any idea how to handle them safely.<\/p>\n

But regulation could bring more danger to the public. Blum examines how Prohibition<\/a>, designed to save people from the dangers of alcoholism, was killing more than unregulated alcohol ever had. Contaminated drink\u2014caused by bad distilling in homemade stills, deliberate adulteration by bootleggers to increase their profits, or even by government who thought that \u201cdenaturing\u201d illegal alcohol by pouring in toxic chemicals would keep people from drinking it\u2014lived up to its nickname of \u201crotgut\u201d in sometimes horrific fashion. The last part of the book shows, ironically, how counter-productive badly-conceived regulations can be.<\/p>\n

The Poisoner\u2019s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York<\/em>\u00a0is a primer on criminology and safety, a glimpse into the fascinating world of 1920s New York City, and a morality play about the struggles of two men determined to protect the public from toxic monsters loosed upon them by apathy, greed and politics. In an era where regulations are seen by some as not worth their economic impact, the lesson of this book is that we can\u2019t afford to avoid such a fight.<\/p>\n

Questions about chemical safety in the workplace? Contact ICC Compliance Center’s regulatory department here at 1-888-442-9628 (USA) or 1-888-977-44834 (Canada).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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