Co/Fin4/2

Correspondence file

1957 - 1960

From: 1957 To: 1960

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

file

Ministry of Housing,
Registrar General

coroner, business correspondence, South Bedfordshire, LUTON, statistics, DEATH, medical examination, inquest, Borough of Luton, police sergeant, buildings and land use, town halls, DUNSTABLE, Ministry of Housing, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, political papers, business papers, mortuary, accidents, HOUSEHOLD, surveys, cleaners, road accidents, courts, fees/charges, general legal process, TRANSPORT, British Railways, forester, Registrar, POVERTY, Magistrates Courts, motor vehicles, Honorary Secretary, football, FA Cup, doctor, disease, TRADE & INDUSTRY, Ministry of Pensions, East Anglia, suicide, general medical profession, Three Counties Asylum, FAMILY, World War One, RAF, Borough Engineer, juries, adoption, human remains, skull, M1, CHILDREN, violence, poison, food, cycling, fines