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(9) Medico-legal investigations.
325. Eighty-one investigations were carried out on materials furnished by the Police.
The character of the materials was as follows:
blood stains 34, seminal stains 40, miscellaneous 7.
(10) Morbid Histology.
Three hundred and eighty-one sections of tissues were prepared and examined histologically. Fifty-two were from malignant growths and fifty-eight from benign. One hundred and fifty-seven were of clinical-pathological interest, and the remainder, one hundred and fourteen, were from post-mortem cases.
ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL AND OTHER EXAMINATIONS.
Total for 1937 Total for 1938 Blood 16,581 17,111 Urine 8,917 8,716 Intestinal parasites 30 13 Tubercle bacillus 77 51 Occult blood 1,454 1,612 Tissue Sections 232 1,208 Friedmann test for pregnancy Sputa Miscellaneous examinations Pus Urine Smear for gonococcus 1,478 569 M. leprae 136 265 Animals for rabies 2,407 3,632 Medico-legal examinations 28 58 Bacteriological examination of milk 10 14 Analysis of water 274 381 Rideal-Walker test of disinfectants 5 33 Autogenous vaccine prepared 687 822 Miscellaneous 90 110 Agglutination reaction 293 501 Weil Felix reaction 617 1,115 B. dysenteriae 154 178 B. melitensis 29 12 B. abortus 80 81 Serological reaction for syphilis 127 133 Blood 1,538 1,521 Faeces 6 20 Examinations smears Cultural Malaria 18 Filaria 1,523 Blood count, etc. 302 Naso-pharyngeal swabs (C. diphtheriae) Spinal fluid (Meningococcus) Bact. typhosum 1,539 2,091 Paratyphosum A 13 2 B 3 1 Total 42,096 44,710Table XLIV.
Nature of examination.
Total for 1937 Total for 1938 Faeces (typhosus, paratyphosus, cholera, etc.) 3,758 4,139A. V. GREAVES, M.B. (Tor.), M.C.P. & S., (Ont.), D.M.T. (Liverpool).
Government Bacteriologist.