World War II was a period of rapid growth for Los Angeles County. During this period the Coroner’s office developed its first Department wide computer system.
1983-1990 Ronald Kornblum, M.D.
1874-1875 N. P. Richardson. Dr. Kornblum, a nationally-recognized expert on chokehold deaths, presided over an office with a dramatically increased workload (over 17,000 cases in 1990-91). 1887-1890 J. M. Meredith.
This is currently a standard system used in forensic identification of skeletons.
This office contains offices, autopsy rooms, an in-house toxicology laboratory, and an electron microscopy laboratory (opened in 1973). Autopsy was reserved for cases where the cause of death was unknown or where poisoning was suspected. Frequent causes of death included “consumption” (tuberculosis),” apoplexy” (sudden death with loss of consciousness) and “dropsy” (accumulation of excess fluid in the body). Two years later, California became a state including, among its original counties, Los Angeles County. In the late 1980s anthropologist Dr. Judy Suchey, in collaboration with the Coroner’s office, developed the Suchey-Brooks system of skeletal aging. 1899-1902 L. T. Holland, M.D. was appointed as the first Medical Examiner in 1976 and served until his retirement in 1993. 1907-1908 Roy Stanley Lanterman, M.D. 1908-1920 Calvin Hartwell, 1920-1921 F. T. Williams, 1921-1945 Frank Albert Nance, 1945-1953 Ben Harlan Brown, 1953-1957 E. A. Winstanley. The Board of Supervisors appointed Dr. Theodore Curphey as the first Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner in 1957. and in the County Hospital’s Old Administration Building.
A smallpox epidemic in 1863-64 decimated the Native American population of Los Angeles County, which had no natural immunity to the disease.
Although the number of deaths is unknown, it was estimated at more than 400. 1868-1869 Vincent Gelcich, M.D. In difficult cases the Coroner summoned an inquest jury, took testimony, and reported the jury’s verdict. 1893-1895 Horace Getchell Cates, M.D. History of the Medical Examiner's Office The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office (BCMEO) was the first Medical Examiner’s Office in the State of Texas. In 1906, the District Attorney called for elimination of the Coroner’s jury, saying, “A Coroner’s verdict binds no one. 1866-1867 J. L. Smith.
The first Coroner of Los Angeles County, Alpheus P. Hodges, was also the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles. The homicide rate between 1847 and 1870 averaged 158 per 100,000, which was about ten to twenty times the rate in New York. 1879-1884 Louis Hubert Nadeau, M.D. 1957-1966 Theodore Joslyn Curphey, M.D. In March 2012, the Director, Anthony T. Hernandez, retired and Dr. Sathyavagiswaran was appointed Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner/Interim Director.
1895-1899 George Walter Campbell, M.D. In the late 1950s, Edwin Shneidman, Norman Farberow and Robert Litman developed the technique of psychological autopsy in collaboration with Los Angeles County Coroner. The worst multi-fatality incident in the history of Los Angeles County occurred on March 12, 1928 when the St. Francis Dam broke. 1885-1886 Andrew McFarland, M.D.
The Ft. Tejon earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.9) in 1857 is the most recent earthquake on the southern section of the San Andreas Fault. 1966-1983 Thomas T. Noguchi, M.D. 2016-2017 Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D.
The Coroner’s office, located in room 100, was equipped with facilities for scientific processing of cases, including autopsy tables, embalming tables, refrigeration, an inquest room, and a viewing room. Robert J. Stein, M.D. The Coroner was an elected official (often the Sheriff) who was charged with determining cause and manner of death in specific cases. in Los Angeles on the grounds of LAC+USC Medical Center. 1862-1865 J. S. Griffin, M.D.
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