ABSTRACT
The Dade County Medical Examiner Office opened at noon, March 15, 1956, in an unused garage across the street from the county’s Jackson Memorial Hospital. The county population was about 750,000. Today the Medical Examiner Department of Miami Dade County is a modern three-building complex of 89,000 square feet located in the northeast corner of the medical center complex of the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital. It serves a population of 2.3 million not counting those who were not detected by the census.
