Reference
Co/Fin4/2
Title
Correspondence file
Date free text
1957 - 1960
Production date
From: 1957 To: 1960
Scope and Content
Includes: schedule of sudden deaths, post-mortems and inquests in Borough of Luton for 1957 with coroner's pencil notes on reverse regarding Police Sergeant's sympathetic attitude to a sudden death;
informal use of Dunstable Town Hall for Coroner's Courts which the Borough feels should be taken on a rental basis;
loss of a Pink Form B registering death;
Ministry of Housing and Local Government Committee's report on standards for mortuaries;
Borough of Luton inquiry into home accidents, with copy of questionnaire;
cleansing of bodies at Dunstable Mortuary; method of proceeding at an inquest involving an RTA (Road Traffic Accident);
desirability of holding Coroner's Courts in the locality of the deceased (and Dunstable Borough's complaint that this had not occurred since their charging a fee for use of the Town Hall);
notification of trial for manslaughter, sent to the wrong Coroner;
conveyance of bodies for post-mortems;
cart bills from British Railways for conveyance of internal organs;
survey of deaths related to occupations 1959-63;
notice to Coroners of General Registrar's decision to undertake the survey;
possible lower charge for copy of post-mortem (?) details to interested parties of limited financial means;
abandoning an inquest following dismissal of a criminal charge by a Magistrate's Court and police unhappiness with this;
survey on which parts of vehicles caused most deaths to pedestrians in RTAs;
request for Cup Final tickets for his staff by Honorary Secretary of Coroner's Society 1959 (FA Cup Final Luton 1 Notts. Forest 2);
two Coroner's Court cases, request for guidance on procedure for future use;
doctor's request for a synopsis of post-mortem report on a patient;
report on death by byssinosis to the Pneumoconiosis Medical Panel, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance;
non-membership of East Anglia Coroner's Society as Luton is too far away;
request for suicide statistics by medical superintendent at Three Counties Asylum for personal research;
unimportance of relatives' views regarding inquests;
death of a man due to his war wound (bullet in the heart since WW1) unrecorded by any coroner;
coroner's Disposition regarding inquest by RAF;
Borough Engineer's Department action following rider by Coroner's Jury on RTA;
name to be entered on forms following adoption if that adoption was not legally carried out;
necessity of calling a doctor in transport or industrial inquests that are adjourned;
eligibility of doctors for fees in two cases;
discovery of a human skull;
suicide on M1;
death of an infant in suspicious circumstances;
list of deaths, post-mortem, inquests and expenses 1956 and 1959;
food poisoning after eating a hamburger;
payment to doctors regarding medical reports;
death in a cycling accident;
and fining for failing to answer a summons
Level of description
file