146
TABLE 2
Chemico-Legal Analyses.
Toxicological Examinations (including postmortem
materials from 46 persons)
Urine and Blood for Alcohol determination
Articles connected with:
Acid-throwing
Borahs & Explosivos
Collapse of Building
Firearms
Frond
Illegal practising of Western medicine
Larceny
Licensing Laws
Medicines, Drugs & Poisons
Outbreaks of Fire
Smuggling
a
Stains on clothing etc.
147
TABLE 3
Toxicological Examinations.
256
119
(12
10
73
48
607
No Poison present
Opium
Phenolic or Cresolic Compounds
Alcohol
Aspirin Barbiturate
Calcium chloride Calcium oxalate
Camphorated oil
Caustic Alkali Crayon Dyestuff Fungi Gasoline
Hydrochloris acid Hydrocarbon oil Hyoscyamine
Kai Po Yue Fish Magnesium sulphate Mercury
Methylene blue Morphine
Oxalic acid
Soap Strychnine
Sulphuric acid Thiamin .... Yohimbine Miscellaneous
96
13
26
3舘52)
1
1
1
6
1
1
1
1
1
- N
L
250
(iv) Commercial samples form the largest single item of the work of the Laboratory. Fees collected have increased from $106,601 to $118,811, making a total of $262,844 since the war. It is unusual for a Government Laboratory to concern itself to this extent with consulting work, but this is necessitated by the absence of adequate private laboratories, and by the abnormal trading conditions. Table 4 gives details of the samples submitted.