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fortnight and taxed the facilities of the Laboratory to the utmost as the results were required within a week of the closing of the tender period. Platinum apparatus was loaned to us by the Taikoo Sugar Refinery; without this help the work could not have been completed in time.
In connection with Government coal supplies it is to be reported again that every consignment of coal to the Harbour and Public Works Departments was sampled and the samples analysed here, in order to arrive at the price to be paid to the contractor.
WATER SUPPLIES.
Of the 959 samples examined during the year, 228 were taken from the various filter beds, 562 were from house taps in various parts of the Colony, and 12 were from the Y.M.C.A. Swimming Bath in Kowloon. The decrease in number of tap samples, 562 as against 1,108, was due to the decrease in available staff here during the summer, consequent on the death of Mr. E. R. Dovey and the absence in hospital of one of the assistant Government Analysts. During these months all but the samples from filter beds had to be cut out.
No complaints as to chemical impurities in the Hong Kong waters were received during the year.
BIOCHEMICAL WORKS.
The following list gives the nature of work done under this head:
1932 1931 Blood for presence of sea water 1 0 Blood for blood sugar 68 42 Blood for blood urea nitrogen 78 76 Ascitic fluid for chloride content 12 24 Urine 11 17 Stools 14 0 Other samples 0 22 Total 184 181M 162
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fortnight and taxed the facilities of the Laboratory to the utmost as the results were required within a week of the closing of the tender period. Platinum apparatus was loaned to us by the Taikoo Sugar Refinery; without this help the work could not have been completed in time.
In connection with Government coal supplies it is to be reported again that every consignment of coal to the Harbour and Public Works Departments was sampled and the samples analysed here, in order to arrive at the price to be paid to the contractor.
WATER SUPPLIES.
Of the 959 samples examined during the year. 228 were taken from the various filter beds, 562 were from house taps in various parts of the Colony, and 12 were from the Y.M.C.A. Swimming Bath in Kowloon. The decrease in number of tap samples, 562 as against 1,108, was due
due to the decrease in available staff here during the summer, consequent on tile death of Mr. E. R. Dovey and the absence in hospital of one of the assistant Government Analysts. During these month- all but the samples from filter beds had to be cut out.
No complaints as to chemical impurities in the Hong Kong waters were received during the year.
BIOCHEMICAL WORKS.
The following list gives the nature of work done under this head :
1932.
1931.
Blood for presence of sea water
1
0
Blood for blood sugar
68
42
Blood for blood urea nitrogen..
78
76
Ascitic fluid for chloride content
12
24
Urine
11
17
Stools
14
0
Other samples
0
22
Total
184
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