In public hospitals, penitentiaries, charitable or other similar homes or institutions, the duty of inspection falls upon the physician in chief. Outside these institutions the inspectors must be chosen, in the first instance, from among physicians, after them surgeons, former assistants of military hospitals, and lastly, in default of such, from lay people. The latter must, however, be of undoubted respectability, and, before their appointment, must be properly instructed by the district physician, and subjected from time to time to an examination. § 6. As a rule the inspection of dead bodies must be made once if by doctors, and twice if by laymen. In communities which possess a mortuary a _second inspection_ has to be made, even though the regular inspection has previously been made by doctors or laymen. § 7. The first inspection has to be made as soon as possible after death, and, where practicable, within twenty-four hours, and in cases described under § 6, sec. 2, at least before removal of the body to the mortuary. The second inspection must take place just before burial. § 8. The body, until the arrival of the Inspector, must be left in an undisturbed position, with the face uncovered, and free from closely-fitting garments. The instructions of the Inspector, for the resuscitation of a body suspected of apparent death only, are to be followed most strictly. § 9. The Inspector has to give a certificate of corpse inspection confirmatory of his inspection, but he must only issue the same if he has fully ascertained the actuality of death. § 10. (1) As a rule the bodies must not be interred before the lapse of 48 hours, but not later than 72 hours, after death. The Police Authorities may, however, at the recommendation of the Corpse Inspector, exceptionally grant permission for the burial before the expiration of 48 hours if a _post-mortem_ dissection has taken place, also if decomposition has set in, and if on account of lack of room the body has to be preserved in an overcrowded habitation. APPENDIX to the Police Instructions as to Corpse Inspection and time of Burial, of 20th November, 1885. I. The purpose of corpse inspection is to prohibit the concealment of deaths by violent means or resulting from medical malpractices; to detect infectious diseases, and the establishment of correct death lists; and particularly _to prevent the burial of people only apparently dead_. For this purpose each corpse is to be closely examined on the first inspection as to any signs of death, both in the front and the back of the body. II. The Inspectors have primarily to establish the actuality of death by observing and notifying all the symptoms accompanying or following the decease. Indications of death may be noted:-- (1) If there is no indication of any pulsation noticeable, either in the region of the heart, at the neck, at the temples, or the forearm.