The role of a lethal issues analysis in improving the level of public health is discussed. The significance of autopsy results and their analysis, with the development of medical science, not only did not decrease but, on the contrary, considerably increased. Real possibility of computer analysis of the lethal issues appeared with the introduction of International classification of diseases. The requirements to the unified reports of the departments of pathology are considered, the latter being the most important information about the activity of the pathology service and the quality of the therapeutical and diagnostic process at its different levels.