Definition: Coroner
Social statistics
Officer of a county, district, municipality, parish etc., authorized by law to hold an inquest regarding deaths of persons who may have died by violence, injury or suspicious circumstances to determine if the death was due to non-natural causes, such as accident, suicide or homicide.
Source:
United Nations, "Handbook on Training in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems", Studies in Methods, Series F, No. 84, New York, 2002
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