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this was shown to have been deliberately caused, but the culprits were not traced. At the Marine Court of Enquiry, the Govern- ment Chemist sat as a member of the Court, and Mr. R. C. Terry, Assistant Government Chemist, gave evidence on the technical side of the investigations.

TABLE 2.

Chemico-legal Analyses.

Toxicological Examinations (including post-

mortem materials from 52 persons)

Urine and Blood for Alcohol determination

Articles connected with:

Acid-throwing

Arson

Bombs and Explosives

8.8. "Chaksang" Explosion Enquiry

Forgery

Fraud

Illegal firecrackers

Articles connected with :

Illegal practising of Western medicine Larceny

Licensing Laws

Medicines, Drugs and Poisons

Murder

TABLE 3.

Toxicological Examinations,

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TABLE 3-(Continued).

Toxicological Examinations.

Gelsemium elegans Benth

Hydrochloric acid

1

Kerosene

Morphine

2

Methylene blue

271

141

9

21

26

ཊྛཏྭཱ གཧྨསྨིཾཝཱ བྲཱ

Oil of wintergreen Potassium ferricyanide Potassium permanganate Quinine

Salicylic acid Sodium silicate Sulphonamide

Sulphuric acid

Strychnine

19

6

5

728

No poison present

Opium

Phenolic or Cresolic Compounds

Acetic acid

Acetylsalicylic acid

Alcohol

34

18

78

1

1

10

Alkalis

Arsenic

Barbituric acid derivatives

24

Belladonna

Bromide

Camphor

Carbon monoxide

Chloral hydrate

Coal-tar derivatives

Cyanide

Eucalyptus oil Ferrocyanide

1

1

2

1

2

1

2

1

2

271

(iv) Commercial work has again increased. Fees collected were $141,169 compared with $118,811. Table 4 shows the considerable range of material dealt with.

TABLE 4.

Commercial Samples.

Minerals and Metals:-

Aluminium

Antimony

Bismuth concentrate and ore ..........******

Cassiterite

Chromite

Clay and Kaolin

Coal

Copper

Copper concentrate

Fergusonite ore Ferro-manganese Ferro-molybdenum Ferro-tungsten Fluorspar

Gold Granite Graphite Gunmetal

Iron cre

Lead

i

1

୫

15

2

I

23

37

18

2

1

1

21

M-NENDR

3

1

56

1

2

11

16

28