6442-1907-Conditions-and-Tariff-of-Charges-for-Analytical-Examinations — Page 1

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 1907.

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MEDICAL Department.

No. 285.-The following Conditions and Tariff of Charges for Analytical Examina- tions, for the General Public, in the Government Laboratory are substituted for the scale published in Government Notification No. 664 of 1901.

Samples are analysed for the general public under the following conditions, and at the following rates:~-

Conditions.

1. Postage or freight must be prepaid.

2. Applications and samples should be addressed to the Government Analyst, who will inform the applicant as to the cost of the examination and will give a bill for the same which must be at once paid to the Colonial Treasurer.

3. The right is reserved of refusing samples from beyond the boundaries of the Colony, or such samples as may not be considered of sufficient public im- portance to warrant analysis.

4. The locality from which the samples come must be clearly described.

5. Crushed samples will not be received for analysis under any circumstances.

6. All samples analysed will remain the property of the Government.

7. The Government will not recognise any claims arising from the results of

analysis.

Tariff of Charges.

(a) Analyses of Food Materials.When any substance of the nature of a food or a drug * is required to be examined as to evidence of purity or freedom from adulteration, a uniform charge of five dollars is made in accordance with section 11 of The Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1896.

* The term "food" shall include every food or article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water. The term “ drug" shall include medicine for internal or external use. (Section 2 of The Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1896.)

(4) Water.

Analysis (total solids, chlorine, nitrates, absorption of oxygen, free and saline and albumenoid ammonia and qualitative test for nitrites),

Qualitative analysis of mineral water,

Quantitative

do.,

Hardness only,

.$ 25.00

15.00

50.00

5.00

(c) Alloys.

Qualitative test for one constituent,

5.00

Complete qualitative analysis,

15.00

Quantitative analysis,

25.00

(d) Mineral analyses.

Salts.

Qualitative test for one constituent,

Complete qualitative analysis,

Quantitative analysis, each constituent,

5.00

15.00

10.00

Metallic ores.

Antimony, Tin, Silver, Gold, qualitative,.......

10.00

Do.

quantitative,

25.00

General qualitative analysi

15.00