View of body

The coroner or any jury may view the body, but it shall not be necessary at any inquest or inquiry for the coroner or the jury to do so, Provided that where at any inquest it appears to the coroner or to the greater number of the jury attending at the inquest to be 17 expedient to view the body, the jury shall thereupon proceed to do so, and if the body has been buried, the coroner shall order its exhumation for the purpose, unless he certifies that, in this opinion, exhumation would be useless for the purposes of the inquest or dangerous to the public health.