The coroner's court, its uses and abuses : with suggestions for reform / by J. J. Dempsy.

  • Dempsy, J. J.
Date:
1859
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Credit: The coroner's court, its uses and abuses : with suggestions for reform / by J. J. Dempsy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    9 11 or from inattention to sanatory regulations, the population be so destroyed or physically weakened that the whole frame work of society would be broken up—the operative and commercial elements all but destroyed, or at least hurled into such a state of prostration, that our flourishing empire, the wonder of the world, would be brought to utter ruin—nay, the descendants of a warlike race become the puny sickly playthings of more stalwart arms, and their once free and boasted land scorned and despised among the nations. Do not arguments like these prove that such an institution, democratic as it is from its peculiar and wise formation, is of necessity one of the most j important this country possesses ] I But what do we find in the present day I Another tribunal perfectly arbitrary, breathing i throughout that system obnoxious to the English ^ and trans-atlantic people, centralization springing iup, and attempting to abrogate the authority of this people's Court. The new police system which it was found necessary to establish, or rather re- model, in order to check a minor scale of crime, and bring the petty offender to justice, takes upon itself not only seriously to interfere with, but actually to ridicule, the Coroner’s administration. ' Ah ! sad it will be for the people if such inter- ference is allowed to continue ; the end will be the complete annihilation of a Court, the last remnant of a recognition of the people untrammelled by Crown officers. Justice will be hoodwinked, human life become a matter of pounds, shillings, B i