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This one has aroused my curiosity and I have found almost nothing out about it!

From Womans Own Magazine, April 28th 1934.

Crookesmoor? SHould that be Crookesmoor Road?

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I have found this article in.

TYPHOID and Other WATER-BORNE DISEASES Entirely PREVENTED by the use of the CISTERN and other FILTERS supplied by the London and General Water Purifying Company Ltd .

The Morning Post (London, England), Monday, May 28, 1900

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I have found this article in.

TYPHOID and Other WATER-BORNE DISEASES Entirely PREVENTED by the use of the CISTERN and other FILTERS supplied by the London and General Water Purifying Company Ltd .

The Morning Post (London, England), Monday, May 28, 1900

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Howarth Elijah F.R.A.S. curator of Weston Park museum, 471 Crookes Moor Road.

1901 directory.

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Thomas H Howarth was Elijah's grandson. Thomas was a Clerk in a Steel Foundry in 1901 (as was William his father), and they were living with Elijah in 1901 but by 1911 had moved next door to 473.

Here's a photo of Elijah in 1899, in a hole at Wincobank.

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Does anyone have any idea as to what was actually contained within this stuff?

Supposedly, all sorts of things that the modern day, health and safety gurus would have MASSIVE spasms and fits about!

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C0CIKROACHES cleared with Blattis, the Union Paste. Guaranteed by E. Howarth, F.Z.S. Recommended by Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S., and Canon Hinton Jacques. Supplied to the Royal Household. Annihilates Beetles. Harmless to pets. Tins, Is. 3d., 2s. 3d., 4.s. 6d.— HOWARTH & FAIR, Sole Makers, 471 Crookesmoore Road, Sheffield.

Spectator - 8th Nov 1913

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COCKROACHES exterminated by " Blattis." Simple, safe and pleasant to use. Cleared them from Sheffield Workhouse when E. Howarth, F.Z.S., by request of the Government, adopted this scientific remedy.-Tins,ls. 6d., 2s. 8d., 5s., post free from HOWARTHS, 471 Crookesmoore Road, Sheffield, or through your Chemist, including Army and Navy Stores and all BOOT'S Branches.

Spectator - 23rd Feb 1924

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Good Health Magazine - Nov 1937

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"Holt (J. J. H.). The Cockroach: Its Destruction and Dispersal. A Comparison of Insecticides and Methods. " Lancet, London, no. 4840, 3rd June 1916, pp. 1136-1137.

This paper records the action of various substances on Blatta {Peri-planeta) orientalis (common cockroach), tested in the course of some two or three years. Prehminary investigations in reference to general conditions gave some unexpected results. B. orientalis is able to live a long time without food or water, and one individual survived for 76 days in a petri dish. This insect can also live with a very limited air-supply and can survive submersion in water for 20 minutes. It eats practically all kinds of organic matter, including its own dead, but is soon adversely affected by contact with its own excreta. Extensive experiments were made with 25 volatile bodies, 31 aromatic oils, 8 coal-tar derivatives, all of which act through the respiratory system, 40 dusting pow^ders, most of which act through the respiratory system, and 10 food-poisons. With regard to the latter, the tolerance of the cockroach for arsenic is remarkable, a lethal result requiring 41-96 hours. The results of these tests seem to indicate that many of the substances which have been supposed to kill cockroaches have really had the effect of only driving them away. For rapid destruction fumigation with bromine or sulphur dioxide is apparently the best method. For domestic purposes, the daily use of creosote, wood naphtha, or oil of rosemary, eucalyptus or citronella placed near the haunts of cockroaches for two or three weeks should effectually disperse them. Where these are inadmissible on account of their smell, odourless dusting powders may be used. Of these sodium fluoride was found to be the most effective.

It is also cheap and keeps indefinitely. It is suggested that these experiments may have some value as apphed to other insect pests.

HowARTH (E.). The Destruction of Cockroaches. " Lancet, London, no. 4841, 10th June 1916, p. 1192.

With reference to the above article, it is pointed out that there is a wide difference between the application of inhalants and food-poisons. No reliable time effect is given by the fact that the lethal effects of all the volatile bodies mentioned are more rapid than the food-poisons, as the former were placed in covered dishes or bottles with imprisoned insects. The only comparable time test would be to use the remedy on cockroaches in their natural habitat. Having to destroy a plague of cockroaches at a large institution in Sheffield, the author fomid fumigation to be out of the question and decided to poison them in their retreats, so as to avoid their becoming mixed in the food. Their hiding places were easily discovered and the food-poison (Blattis) was laid down there and within three days the pests were dead. The value of this poison lies in its attractiveness, which is demonstrated by the rapidity with which the cockroaches devour it. Quite different material, a powdery food mixed with a non-volatile poison, had to be used for

Lepisma saccharina (silver fish), which in one case was entirely Idlled off in 48 hours. To fumigate dwelhngs and institutions is practically impossible, and an exterminator that produces death in a few hours, with a cumulative effect due to the action of the poison in the bodies of cannibahstic cockroaches, is far more effective."

Review of Applied Entomology - Jan 1916

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Same stuff (mentions use at the workhouse) but no mention of Blattis.

Picture Sheffield

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"Not long ago the kitchens and bakeries of the Fir Vale Union Workhouse at Sheffield swarmed with blackbeetles, to such an extent that the Government Inspector feared the buildings would have to be pulled down. The insects even got into the soup and bread provided for the inmates, in spite of all vigilance and every remedy. The Board of Guardians, in despair, consulted the curator of the Sheffield Museum - Mr. Howarth, F.Z.S. - and he invented a paste which in a short time completely freed the workhouse from blackbeetles. This "Union" cockroach paste can be had in tins from Mr. Hewitt, chemist, 66 Division Street, Sheffield. It never fails in its effect.' 'Keating's Powder' is also effectual if the beetles are swept up in the morning and destroyed."

Source

More Pot-Pourri From A Surrey Garden

Copyright 1899, Smith, Elder, & Co

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Thomas H Howarth was Elijah's grandson. Thomas was a Clerk in a Steel Foundry in 1901 (as was William his father), and they were living with Elijah in 1901 but by 1911 had moved next door to 473.

Here's a photo of Elijah in 1899, in a hole at Wincobank.

Thomas H(erbert) and William F(airclough) were brothers, and they were sons of Elijah.

By 1911 Thomas had moved to Northfield Road.

I am currently going through the membership book of the Walkley Reform Club and Thomas and William are both listed.

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