The Straits Settlements medical report.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department.
Date:
[1917]
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Credit: The Straits Settlements medical report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (c) Mineral Turpene. One thousand three hundred and fifty tins were imported into Singapore and tested for flash-point, as compared with 700 tins in 1916. (d) Liquid Fuel. Forty-seven samples were tested for their flash-points. Fifty samples were tested as to whether they were in accordance with the Admiralty specification as regards flash-point and the percentage of water. (e) Testing Vessels for Dangerous Petroleum Vapour. F'orty-six vessels were tested for inflammable vapour by means of Red¬ wood’s Standard Instrument, either before being allowed to enter Port limits under Rule 23 of the Petroleum Ordinance or to enter Dry Dock under By¬ law 77 of the Straits Settlements Ports Ordinance, 1912. Explosives. Two consignments of explosives were tested on importation into Singa. pore in accordance with the Rules under the Arms and Explosives Ordin¬ ance, 1913. ■ ■ • . All passed the prescribed tests. : The following table gives the details of these and, for the purpose of comparison, those imported and tested during the two preceding years : — Year. Number of consign- ments. ' Number of packages of 50 lbs. each. Total. Dynamite. Gelignite. Blasting- Gelatine. Gelatine Dynamite. 1915 10 600 *.934 1,320 ... i : • • i 4,884 1916 6 0 0 vrv 2,260 50 300 1917 2 IOO 2,111 '500 2,71 I In addition to the above 124 cases of detonators were imported, as against 27 cases in 1916. Minerals, Metals, etc. . *. Forty-three samples of minerals, including amongst others' Wolframite, Scheelite. I in Oie, Gold Quartz, Molybdenite, etc., were assayed during the year, as against 37 samples in 1916. Forty-nine samples were sent in for identification. ‘ ' In addition 11 samples 01 metals and alloys were also assayed. Eleven Liquors. samples were sent in for determination of their spirit strengths. , TW6 samPIers of whisky and 10 of brandy, three of the former and all of t e latter were found to be spurious, being mainly composed of arrack or some other silent spirit. (a) METHYLATED SPIRITS. Five hundred and ninety-five drums and 35 cases equal to approx mately 71,110 gallons of arrack were methylated for industrial purposes a against 479 drums and 93 cases equal to approximately 65,070 gallons in iqit