64
Table XIV.--Continued.
BACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF WATER SAMPLES OF VARIOUS
SOURCES,—Continued.
41
Pollution
Date.
Description of Index as
samples.
Remarks.
C.0.
65
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217
ANALYST'S DEPARTMENT.
REPORT BY MR. E. R. DOVEY, A.R.C.SC., F.I.C., F.C.S., Government Analyst.
The number of analyses performed during the year was 1952 as against 1339 924, an increase of nearly 50%.
The following classification shows the nature of the work done:-
Food and Drugs Ordinance,—Conta,
Chemico-legal.
1925. 1924.
Toxicological examinations,
6-5-25.
Water from T. S.
house
+
Unsatisfactory
(including 35 stomachs),
78
51
Cocoa,
Fibres,
0
2 Coffee,
1925. 1924.
1
17
2-6-25.
Water from New
0.5 Raw water
Clothes,
0
1
Crab,
Territory
Corrosive liquids,
0
5 Crab, meat,
do.
do.
0.01
do.
do.
do.
0.1
do.
Bombs and Explosives,
2
5
Cream, fresh,
do.
do.
0.0:
do.
Coins and Coining Material,
{}
11
Cream mixture,
(
Herbs and Roots,
()
2
Currants,
10-6-25.
Filtered water,
Education Dept.
20
do.
do.
Very good. +0.2 Unsatisfactory.
Liquids,
2
7
Fish,
Powders,
6
0
Flour,
23
57
Other substances,
Friar's Balsam,
2
17-8-25.
Water from cattle
Gin,
0
shed, Telegraph Bay
)
+ 0.5 Raw water.
Dangerous Goods Ordinance.
Glucose,
Petroleum Oil,
6 Ham,
1
8-10-25.
Water from Canton
Fuel Oil.
10
8: Honey,
2
river at Pak Hin Hok
do. 24-12-25.
do. Water from Kiung Chow Commis- sioner's Artesian
+ 0.1 + 0.1
Crackers,
1
Isinglass,
do. do.
Liquids for Flash Point,
11
Jam,
3
Guncotton,
1: Lard,
6
Carbonic Acid Gas,
1
Liquorice powder,
Canister,
1
Male Fern Extract,
well
do.
do.
50 + 25
Excellent Good.
Gasoline,
0
Marzipan mixture,
0
Ships for Inflammable Vapour, 34
41
Mercurial ointment,
Milk, fresh,
175
Food and Drugs Ordinance.
Milk. tinned,
17
Mustard,
2
Almond mixture,
0
Olive Oil,
3
Aromatic powder of chalk,
Peas, preserved,
3
Arrowroot,
Pepper,
14
Awabi,
0 Quinine, Ammon. Tinet. of,
1
Bamboo shoots,
1
0
Rice,
10
Bean curd,
6
2. Rice birds,
1
Beef (tinned),
2
0
Shell fish,
1
Beer,
2
1
Soup,
0
1
Brandy,
2
0
Spirit of Sal Volatile,
Bread,
44
Spirit of Ethyl Nitrite,
Butter.
11
Sulphur Ointment,
Butter mixture,
Sugar,
11
Cakes,
Tea,
5
Calomel ointment,
Tinned fish,
1
Camphorated oil. Cheese,
Chinese medicines, Chinese wines,
Treacle,
1
0
Turpentine liniment,
1
0
0 Vinegar,
13
5 Whisky,
2
CHOCOLICO~----CHOOHOOOOHHHOTO CHOCOTHOCOLA
2
1
1
1
1
0
4
0