[Autopsy report and cause of death statistics]

Neither death-certificate nor inquest-certificate clearly state whether the coroner made his entry after having established the facts himself or after having considered speculations or statements made by other persons. For this reason they are without any probative value for criminal cases as well as civil lawsuits but also for underwriters. Completely unintelligible is the fact that the entries concerning the kind of death and the cause of death on the inquest-certificate as it is being issued now, serve as the basis for the cause-of-death-statistics which are of great socio-political importance.