A simple body weighing machine.

It is customary to weigh the organs removed at necropsy and these measurements provide objective criteria of atrophy, hypertrophy, and disease. However, surprisingly few mortuaries have facilities for weighing whole bodies. When this hospital opened in 1970 attempts to obtain a body weighing machine within the limits of the budget were unsuccessful and a simple modification of the body elevating machine was devised which enabled each body to be quickly and easily weighed.