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Correspondence: 1912, Feb 19 - Aug 31., 1912

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Vigorous publicity and lobbying efforts culminated in the passage of the bill prohibiting poison phosphorous in matches. The bill, sponsored by Congressmen Hughes and Each, was signed into law in April. The following month a more general study of industrial poisons and the diseases they caused was begun.

Dates: 1912