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TABLE 2

Chemico-Legal Analyses.

Toxicological Examinations (including postmortem

materials from 46 persons)

Urine and Blood for Alcohol determination

Articles connected with:

Acid-throwing

Borahs & Explosivos

Collapse of Building

Firearms

Frond

Illegal practising of Western medicine

Larceny

Licensing Laws

Medicines, Drugs & Poisons

Outbreaks of Fire

Smuggling

a

Stains on clothing etc.

147

TABLE 3

Toxicological Examinations.

256

119

(12

10

73

48

607

No Poison present

Opium

Phenolic or Cresolic Compounds

Alcohol

Aspirin Barbiturate

Calcium chloride Calcium oxalate

Camphorated oil

Caustic Alkali Crayon Dyestuff Fungi Gasoline

Hydrochloris acid Hydrocarbon oil Hyoscyamine

Kai Po Yue Fish Magnesium sulphate Mercury

Methylene blue Morphine

Oxalic acid

Soap Strychnine

Sulphuric acid Thiamin .... Yohimbine Miscellaneous

96

13

26

3舘52)

1

1

1

6

1

1

1

1

1

- N

L

250

(iv) Commercial samples form the largest single item of the work of the Laboratory. Fees collected have increased from $106,601 to $118,811, making a total of $262,844 since the war. It is unusual for a Government Laboratory to concern itself to this extent with consulting work, but this is necessitated by the absence of adequate private laboratories, and by the abnormal trading conditions. Table 4 gives details of the samples submitted.