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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 27, 1941.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
No. 791-Government Notification No. 510 in Gazette No. 33 of the 30th June, 1938 and Government Notification No. 1355 in Gazette No. 70 of the 13th December, 1940, are hereby caucelled and the following substituted therefor :-
The following Conditions and Tariff of Charges for Analytical and Bacteriological Examinations for the Public, in the Government Laboratory, will take effect on and from 1st July, 1941 :-
Analytical Examinations.
Samples are analysed for the general public under the following conditions and at the following rates:-
CONDITIONS :
(1) Postage or freight must be prepaid.
(2) Applications and samples should be addressed to the Government Analyst, who will inform the applicant as to the cost of the examination, and will give a bill for the same which must at once be paid to the Accountant General.
(3) The right is reserved of refusing samples from beyond the boundaries of the Colony, or such samples as may not be considered of sufficient public importance to warrant analysis.
(4) The locality from which the samples come must be clearly described. (5) Crushed samples will not be received for analysis under any circumstances. (6) All samples analysed will remain the property of the Government.
(7) The Government will not recognize any claims arising from the results of
analysis.
TARIFF OF CHARGES.
SERVICE.
(a) Water:-
Analysis (Total solids, Chlorine, Nitrates, Absorbtion of Oxygen, Free and Albumenoid Ammonia, Nitrites, and Hardness)
Qualitative Analysis of Mineral Water
Quantitative
do.
Hardness only
(b) Minerals and Metals:-
CHARGE.
25.00
15.00
50.00
5.00
Identification only
5.00
Qualitative Examination for one Constituent
10.00
Complete Qualitative Analysis
25.00
Quantitative Analysis for the principal constituent
30.00
Each extra Constituent
10.00
Complete Analysis
80.00
(c) Coal:-
General Analysis (Moisture, Volatile Matter, Ash, Fixed Carbon,
Coke, Sulphur, and Calorific Value)
Moisture and Ash only
Graphite (Moisture, Carbon, Ash, quantitative)
(d) Kerosene :-
Flashing Point (Abel Test)
Fire Test
Specific Gravity only
:
30.00
10.00
30.00
5.00
2.50
5.00