170
this was shown to have been deliberately caused, but the culprits were not traced. At the Marine Court of Enquiry, the Govern- ment Chemist sat as a member of the Court, and Mr. R. C. Terry, Assistant Government Chemist, gave evidence on the technical side of the investigations.
TABLE 2.
Chemico-legal Analyses.
Toxicological Examinations (including post-
mortem materials from 52 persons)
Urine and Blood for Alcohol determination
Articles connected with:
Acid-throwing
Arson
Bombs and Explosives
8.8. "Chaksang" Explosion Enquiry
Forgery
Fraud
Illegal firecrackers
Articles connected with :
Illegal practising of Western medicine Larceny
Licensing Laws
Medicines, Drugs and Poisons
Murder
TABLE 3.
Toxicological Examinations,
171
TABLE 3-(Continued).
Toxicological Examinations.
Gelsemium elegans Benth
Hydrochloric acid
1
Kerosene
Morphine
2
Methylene blue
271
141
9
21
26
ཊྛཏྭཱ གཧྨསྨིཾཝཱ བྲཱ
Oil of wintergreen Potassium ferricyanide Potassium permanganate Quinine
Salicylic acid Sodium silicate Sulphonamide
Sulphuric acid
Strychnine
19
6
5
728
No poison present
Opium
Phenolic or Cresolic Compounds
Acetic acid
Acetylsalicylic acid
Alcohol
34
18
78
1
1
10
Alkalis
Arsenic
Barbituric acid derivatives
24
Belladonna
Bromide
Camphor
Carbon monoxide
Chloral hydrate
Coal-tar derivatives
Cyanide
Eucalyptus oil Ferrocyanide
1
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
2
271
(iv) Commercial work has again increased. Fees collected were $141,169 compared with $118,811. Table 4 shows the considerable range of material dealt with.
TABLE 4.
Commercial Samples.
Minerals and Metals:-
Aluminium
Antimony
Bismuth concentrate and ore ..........******
Cassiterite
Chromite
Clay and Kaolin
Coal
Copper
Copper concentrate
Fergusonite ore Ferro-manganese Ferro-molybdenum Ferro-tungsten Fluorspar
Gold Granite Graphite Gunmetal
Iron cre
Lead
i
1
୫
15
2
I
23
37
18
2
1
1
21
M-NENDR
3
1
56
1
2
11
16
28