A handful of sweets is as synonymous with Halloween as a spooky costume or a ghoulish pumpkin. But on 31 October 1858, this usually innocent deal with killed a number of youngsters, inflicting panic throughout Bradford and a quickly rising demise toll. This is how a mix-up at a pharmacy, rooted in attempting to avoid wasting a few cents on sugar, rocked Victorian Britain and altered UK legal guidelines.
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