Young J G, Wagner J M
Office of the Chief Coroner, Toronto, Ontario.
Health Rep. 1994;6(3):339-52; discussion 353.
This paper describes the historical origins, modern-day operations and complexities of the Ontario coroners system. Both the Office of the Chief Coroner and Statistics Canada publish death statistics for the province of Ontario. The time required by the coroner's office to produce accurate cause-of-death data may significantly exceed the time constraints faced by Statistics Canada in producing its own annual cause-of-death statistics. As a result, substantial discrepancies arise in the number of deaths attributed to accidents, suicides and homicides that are published by these two agencies.
本文描述了安大略省验尸官系统的历史渊源、现代运作情况及其复杂性。首席验尸官办公室和加拿大统计局均公布安大略省的死亡统计数据。验尸官办公室生成准确死因数据所需的时间可能会大大超过加拿大统计局编制其年度死因统计数据时所面临的时间限制。因此，这两个机构公布的归因于事故、自杀和凶杀的死亡人数出现了大幅差异。
