The Straits Settlements medical report.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: The Straits Settlements medical report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rainfall Pulau Jerejak. In. cts. January -» 0 56 Februarv T 54 March I 68 April 9 95 M ay 5 78 June 5 54 July 8 03 August 8 28 September 6 55 October 4 09 November 13 74 December 9 53 Tota! ... 79 27 Number of rainy davs C56 Greatest rainfall in one day . • . 2\33 Malacca. Report by Dr. F. B. Croucher, Colonial Surgeon. io. A case of cholera occurred on board the s. s. Jinho which arrived from Singapore on the 19th May. The patient died a short time after the arrival of the ship and was buried at sea. The other passengers were landed at the Quarantine Island and were detained there under observation for five days. No further case occurred among them. The steamer was disinfected and was ordered to return to Singapore for quarantine. APPENDIX /. Government Analyst’s Department. Report by Dr. Frankland Dent, m. Sc., ph. d., f. i. c., Government A nalyst. 1. The amount of work carried out by the department in 1906 was considerably larger than in 1905, and the Revenue for the year has increased by 21 per cent vis., from $8,893.70 in 1905 to $10,744.50 last year. {a) Morphine and Cocaine.—Apart from the great seizure by the Excise Officers referred to below {c) nine hundred and seventy-five other packets of suspicious powders and bottles of solutions were referred here and examined. The total quantity of pure Morphine hydrochlorate found being no less than 13,163 grains (generally admixed with milk sugar, which was estimated, and is not included in the above figure) and 1,416 grains of Cocaine hydrochlorate were also obtained. (This quantity is under esti¬ mated, since during the first few months the quantities were not determined). The increase in Cocaine habit is very marked and indicates the desirability of extending the Morphine Ordinance to cover the sale of this drug. A great number of mixing cups, hypodermic syringes, needles and other paraphernalia of the itinerant injector were also brought to the Laboratory. (b) Pills.— Four hundred and ninety-two bottles, mostly taken in a raid upon a Druggist Store, were examined, of which 487 were found to contain morphiated pills, the remainder being respectively Quinine. Mercury, Opium, “Soda Mint” and Cachous. (0) Excise Seizure.—One great haul of no less than 131,361 grains of pure Morphine hydrochlorate and 9,200 pills containing a further quantity of 696 grains Morphine, was sent in and reported upon.