IMPERFECT AND UNNECESSARY INQUEST AT ISLINGTON.

Deposition at the Adjourned Inquest on Death of Four Firewatchers

THE room had four windows, which could be opened, and(a wall ventilator; on the night of the tragedly the windows were shut. The question was, suppose the gas stove was burnintg, could the men have died from suffocation clue to insufficient ventilation? Io answer this question the following test was devise(l. Two extra stoves, similar pattern to that already there, were to be installed in the f...

The coroner's inquest.

(a) He can make no effective ruling as to the steps any doctor should take in relation to any patient before death—even where that death, when it occurs, will fall within the coroner's jurisdiction; (b) He may indicate—as anyone else may—the type of deaths which he wishes to be reported to him—for example all deaths within 24 h of any operation, but there is no legal requirement upon anyone to ...

Contributory factors to traffic accident deaths identified at coroner's inquest.

BACKGROUND Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are an important public health problem and the collection of local information is central to successful accident initiatives in a district. As the local coroner is responsible for investigating accidental deaths, the coroner's inquest files are a potentially useful source of information in developing a district strategy to reduce accidents. METHODS A c...

Napoleon's death. An inquest

From inquest to insight.

BACKGROUND In March 1995, The Chief Medical Examiner, Province of Manitoba, ordered an inquest into the deaths of 12 children who died in 1994 while undergoing or shortly after having undergone cardiac surgery at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The inquest spanned over five years, and resulted in almost 50,000 pages of transcript, including the testimony of more than 80 wi...