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(16) An unusual case was one in which a Chinese drank a mixture of Chinese wine and santonin, and then threw himself from the top floor of the China Building.
(17) Two cases of suicide by drinking strong acids occurred, the acids used being hydrochloric acid in one case and nitric acid in the other. In both cases the corrosive effect on the stomach wall was very marked. Corrosive sublimate was also taken in one case, and here again there was considerable corrosion of the stomach.
Food & Drugs.
(18) It has not been found possible, as was hoped, to increase the number of samples taken under the Ordinance, owing partly to a shortage of staff here, and partly to the work in connection with the cholera epidemic, which required the whole attention of the Urban Council Inspectors for some time. The following table gives details of the substances examined.
Table LIII.
Substance No. of sample examined. No. found genuine. No. found adulterated. Boracic ointment 4 4 0 Butter, fresh 27 27 0 tinned 5 5 0 Castor oil 4 4 0 Cheese 43 43 0 Coffee 8 8 0 Epsom salts 5 5 0 Glauber salts. 5 5 0 Glycerine 4 4 0 Lard 16 14 2 Milk, evaporated 25 24 1 fresh 145 138 7 Medical paraffin 4 3 1 Seidlitz powder 4 4 0 Tea 38 34 4 Total 337 322 15