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(e) Assisting in raids on:

1. Unregistered Medical Practitioners, and

abortionists

10

2. Illegal sale and possession of poisons

30

3. Illegal sale and possession of penicillin

substances

29

4. Manufacture of fake medicines

(f) Examination of weapons including daggers,

knives, axes, etc.

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92

(g) Examination of articles including beddings,

furniture, linen, etc. totals

$11

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(k) Examination of hairs and fibres totals

12

(i) Examination of clothing connected with crimes 533

(1) Examination of Powder-marks in shooting cases 6

(k) Medico-legal Blood-grouping

724

(1) Blood-grouping of Police Personnel

951

(m) Examination of motor vehicles in accidents

(x) Examination of counterfeit coins

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RADIOLOGICAL

505. The work in the X-ray Department continued to increase, as was only to be expected, in view of the great increase in in-patient and out-patient demands on the medical service.

606. The work of the Radiological Department may be divided into the following sections:

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Radiodiagnostic.

507. The total number of X-ray investigations carried out was 157,552, which was an increase of 54 per cent over that of the preceding year. This was due to the opening of the Kowloon Tuberculosis Clinic and the Evening Clinics, the increased attendance at the Government out-patient clinics in general, the expansion of the School Health Service, the working of the Mobile Mass Radiography Unit given by the United Nations

the International Children's Emergency Fund, examination of Essential Services Personnel and, lastly but not the least, to the greater realization of the medical profession and the general public of the value of X-ray examinations in the diagnosis of diseases.

508. In connexion with these investigations 103,277 minia- ture films and 87,829 large ones, (films and X-ray papers) of various sizes were used.

Radiotherapeutic.

509. The total number of cases treated was 259. Of these 183 were treated by deep X-rays, 56 by superficial X-raya and 20 by radiocobalt or radium. This represents an increase of 85 per cent over that of the preceding year.

Physiotherapeutic.

510. This section extended its activities in the Lai Chi Kok and the Mental Hospitals and widened the scope of occupational therapy available in the Colony.

511. In all 5,486 persons of which 781 were in-patients and 4,705 out-patients, were given 47,557 treatments.

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