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Q: What did he come for ?

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He said he came to see what was taken down -

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ceilings broken

down, cubiclos broken up to assess the damage. One day he

came with a man to the office to say that there was a woman

daad at a certain house in Yaumati - I forget the number now

177,I think it was, Portland Street Mongkok - and he said he

would like me to give a burial order as he said there was no

question as to the cause of death that the woman had died from consumption. So I said "very well, I will write the

information out, the name, age and so forth, and I will go

along and see the body and if I think it is all right I cer

-thinly will give the burial order

Chelton Hooper:- Have you the power to give burial orders ?

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Azim

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I give a chit that is taken to the Police Station and a

burial order is given on that. I say I have viewed the

body

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Are you competent to diagnose the cause of death ?

▲ Doctor is not after death, but I have got to do it.

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ordered to do that ?

And if you have any doubt, what do you do, do you issue a

burial orier ?

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Yes.

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When I went there I found that everything with the exception

of the dead body was cleared out of the house. There was

nobody there and, putting two and two together, I naturally

concluded it was a case of infectious disease. There was no

apparent consumption as the woman was in fairly good condi- -tion, so I sent the body to the Mortuary as a okse of

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