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| Record Creator: | Spokane County Government, Medical Examiner |
| Description: | This index displays the case number, name of the deceased, date of death and notes filed with the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s coroner reports from May 2, 1975 to August 31, 1975 and January 1, 1988 to June 30, 1997. |
| Related Records: | For more information or to learn about related records, contact the Washington State Archives, Eastern Region Branch at (509) 235-7508 or email [email protected]. |
| Access Restriction Notes: | These records are partially restricted. The one page coroner report is open to the public. The complete record containing autopsy and toxicology reports and photographs are restricted to next of kin. Permission to view the records is achieved by contacting the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s office. |
| Sources of Transfer | Eastern Regional Archives |
| Notes | Indexed by Eastern Regional Branch staff. |
| Agency History: | The Spokane County Medical Examiner is located in Spokane, WA. Some of their responsibilities include determining the cause and manner of death, performing investigations at the scene of death, identifying the dead using scientific forensic methods, providing expert legal testimony in criminal and civil matters, preparing and planning for mass casualty incidents, insuring the integrity of the personal property of decedents, providing for disposition of unclaimed, indigent citizens, according to state law, and signing death certificate in all cases of unnatural death, and many cases of natural death. |
| Preferred Citation: | [Identification of item], Spokane County Medical Examiner, Index to Reports, 1975, 1988-1997, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov, [date accessed]. |
| Record Count: | 4,131 |
