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The European ambulances at the City Disinfecting Station were used 148 times while those at the Eastern and Western Sanitary Offices in the City were used 151 times. No complete records are kept in this Department of the number of times the Police emergency ambulances were used.
The European ambulances at the Kowloon Disinfecting Station were used 15 times and the Chinese ambulances 142 times, while the ambulance at the compound of the Water Police basin was used 10 times.
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ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS.
Thirty-three samples of milk were taken for analysis during the year, four of which were found to be adulterated.
A number of cases of tinned fish and a quantity of fruit which had become unsound, were seized and destroyed. The purity of alcoholic liquors is dealt with by the Police, who periodically submit samples for analysis.
PROSECUTIONS.
A list of prosecutions undertaken during the year for breaches of the Sanitary Laws and Regulations of the Colony is given in Table IV.
J. M. ATKINSON, M.B. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.S.A., D.P.H., Principal Civil Medical Officer.
FRANCIS CLARK, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H., D.T.M.& H., Medical Officer of Health.
1st February, 1910.