Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Crime, Expertise

    Responding to the decision to appoint a second coroner, discusses whether doctors or lawyers make better coroners. Noting that 'the duty of the coroner is to ascertain the causes of death', argues that doctors, who have the 'reputation' of helping to 'shorten a patient's life', and who are 'more likely to know the cause of death', will make better coroners. Concludes by announcing Mr Punch's preference for Edwin Lankester as coroner.