VPRS 7662 Melbourne Admittance Books

These records contain details regarding the arrival and disposal of bodies at the City Mortuary/Coroner. Although the phrase "Police Report Books" is found on spines of all volumes, Admittance Books more correctly described the records function and was the term used by the agency to describe the series. Series is arranged chronologically by date and time of receipt of body.All information pertaining to a deceased is contained on a single page. Information entered on receipt of body includes the name of the deceased and undertaker bringing body, date and time of arrival and the name, station, number and report of the police officer who accompanied the body. The detail found in this report varies. In approximately 50% of cases the report simply states that the officer concerned accompanied the body from the place of death. In other instances the report may also contain the circumstances of death, the address of the deceased, the name of the doctor who pronounced life extinct, the place of examination and other information deemed relevant.Annotations made beneath this report detailed what occurred after receipt. This includes whether a Post Mortem (P.M.) was conducted, by whom and the date, whether an inquest was held or a decision of death by natural causes entered. Prior to 1948 the "Certificate for Removal of Body from Morgue" is attached. From 1948 this information is replaced by the annotation "gone". In both instances the signatures of the undertakers receiving the body and the police officer transferring the body is attached. A subsequent annotation determines whether the body was cremated.Occasionally entries may also record the person identifying the body, the deceased's regular doctor, the age and marital status of the deceased and a brief summary of the Port Mortem result. Item 1 also contains declarations by relatives who collected the property of the deceased. These declarations spanning 1934-1936 have been pasted over the original entries in the books.

本数据集收录了城市停尸房（City Mortuary）与验尸官办公室（Coroner）关于遗体接收与处置的全部详细档案记录。尽管所有卷宗的书脊上均标注有“Police Report Books（警方报告册）”字样，但“Admittance Books（入院登记册）”才更精准地体现了该档案的功能属性，亦是该机构用以指代此系列档案的官方称谓。本系列档案按照遗体接收的日期与时间顺序进行编排。每份逝者的全部相关信息均单独记录于一页纸上。

遗体接收环节录入的信息包括：逝者姓名、护送遗体抵达的送葬承办人姓名、遗体抵达的日期与时间，以及陪同遗体前来的警员的姓名、所属警署、警号与出警报告。本报告的细节内容存在差异：约50%的案例中，报告仅载明相关警员从死亡现场陪同遗体抵达；其余案例中，报告还可能补充记录死亡情形、逝者住址、宣告死亡的医师姓名、检验地点及其他被认定为相关的信息。

报告下方的批注详细记录了遗体接收后的处置流程，包括是否开展了尸检（Post Mortem，P.M.）、实施主体与实施日期，是否启动验尸程序，或是否认定死因为自然死亡。1948年之前，档案中会附带《遗体移出停尸房许可证明》；1948年起，该位置的记录信息被批注“已移送（gone）”替代。上述两种情形下，均需附带接收遗体的送葬承办人与移交遗体的警员的签名。后续追加的批注还会注明遗体是否已完成火化。

部分条目还会额外记录遗体辨认人、逝者的常驻医师、逝者的年龄与婚姻状况，以及尸检结果的简要摘要。第1号条目还包含了领取逝者遗物的亲属所作的声明。此类声明的时间跨度为1934年至1936年，被粘贴覆盖于原登记条目之上。