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permission topublish the following article which appeared in Vol.7,No.1,of the Journal of the Canadian Society ofForensic Science,March 1974.Dr.Emson is President ofthe Canadian Society of Forensic Science.Anyresemblance to practices throughout the Republic southof the Canadian border are purely coincidental.  \n## THE ORGANISATION OF FORENSIC PATHOLOGY\n\nIn forensic science,as in many other aspects ofCanadian life,such formal organisation as exists is acodification of spontaneously arising systems,aformalisation of what is,rather than a detailedtheoretically conceived plan imposed on chaos fromabove.This in many ways is no bad thing;evolution hasits points(unless one happens to be a dinosaur),andwhat evolves spontaneously is more likely to fit thecircumstances than what is arbitrarily imposed.However,there are branches of forensic science where,for one reason or another,organization has not keptpace with that of the rest of the system,and of these myown part time specialty of forensic pathology is one.  \nLet me say at the beginning that my detailedknowledge is confined to one Province,not theavant-garde of this vast and diverse Dominion.I havewritten elsewhere on forensic patnology inSaskatchewan and perhaps its non-organization is bestllustrated by the progress of a typical case of allegedhomicide.Let us presume that in the town of Mud Lake,in the fictional prairie province of Sickscotchewan,acting upon information received,an officer of the localRCMP detachment of Moose Wallow proceeds (officersnever go,walk,drive,run,hop -they always“proceed”)and finds,weltering in blood,the body ofone John Buck.(no westener can believe in a male Doe.)Circumstantial evidence leads him to suspect homicide:the scientific resources of fingerprints,photography,andother disciplines are deployed with the precision andefficiency of a well oiled machine.But what about theautopsy?  \nConst.Zcyrcwkz RCMP or his superiors cannotorder an autopsy -this duty rests with that interesting  \nSERIALS DEPT.om The SOUTHWESTERN INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC SCTENCES Dallas Texas  \nmedieval survival,the Coroner.And who is the Coroner?-the Attorney General's office for Sickscotchewan hasgreat difficulty in publishing,at irregular and longintervals,names of persons qualified so to act“in andfor the Province”The local medical practitioners havelong since declined so time-consuming andunremunerative a chore.At length,after severaltelephone calls,Const,“S\"-I can't pronounce his namebut this is always what it sounds like -succeeds inunearthing a local business worthy,Joe Dump,whoreluctantly admits to the office.Under the CoronersAct,he gives an order for autopsy.A few hours havegone by.  \nWho is to do the PM?Under the Coroners Act,theCoroner can order any doctor (or,by a happy anomaly,any person)in the Province to perform this grisly duty.The local general practitioners uniformly and vocallydecline the honour.Mr.Dump has heard vaguely,andConst.S somewhat less vaguely,of “pathologists”,butJoe has only been a Coroner for a year,and this is onlythe third case he has dealth with.Somehow he learnsthat in the city of Warming Pan,Sick.,there are not onebut several pathologists attached to the various hospitalsWith a hugh sigh of relief he despatches the body via thechariot of the local undertaker and retires to his wellearned rest.  \nThe first the pathologist,Dr.Sisyphus Slogg,hearsof the matter is next morning when he discovers in hisroutine search of the morgue refrigerator a body taggedas that of one John Buck,male,age unknown,CoronerJoe Dump of Moose Wallow.The body isunaccompanied by any note,permit,identification,detail or as the act says any“thing”to explain itspresence.The night superintendent who has received ithas sought her virtuous couch.Dr.Slogg has told hermore tines than he can remember that the hospital isunder no obligation to accept bodies DOA,for thatepitome of human wisdom 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