A high number of homicides and drug overdose deaths-pushing the workload -Milwaukee County medical e

(Odor of bodies) Chief Medical Examiner Brian Peterson said: Workers share basement hallways with rat traps, cockroaches, wood pallets stored for the next storm-water flooding incident, and the latest pieces of ceiling tiles or walls to fall. There are not enough carts. Odor from a decomposed body that was recently examined hangs in the air of the main room even though the work was done in an adjoining isolation autopsy room. There is ventilation, but neither room is equipped with a system that draws air inside when a door opens. Such a state-of-the-art system is needed to prevent Release of odors and the spread of infectious diseases, as well as flying insects, from decomposed bodies, Peterson said. The medical examiner's office could accomplish even more with state-of-the-art facilities- http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/medical-examiners-office-challenged-by-rising-autopsies-deteriorating-facilities-b99628418z1-360684471.html