AGENCY: Utah County (Utah). County Clerk

SERIES: 24144
TITLE: Death registers
DATES: 1898-1905.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological by reporting date and roughly chronological by death date.

DESCRIPTION: These records register deaths in Utah County for the years 1898 to 1905, as required by law of the county clerk. Each entry has the decedent's name, age, sex, race, color, term of residence in city or county, birthplace, marital status, occupation, last place of residence, cause of death, date of death, and the entry's assigned number. The second volume adds the name of the person making the report. The third also includes birthplace of parents, and burial date and place. These registers record deaths occurring in the county. They were created from certified death reports filed with the county clerk. From 1898 to 1905, the county clerk was required "to keep separate registers, to be known as the 'register of births' and the 'register of deaths' in which births and deaths certified to him must be registered in the order by which they are reported to him" (Utah Rev. Stat. 57:1032 (1898)). In 1905, the responsibility of recording deaths was transferred to the State Department of Health. OBSOLETE RECORD

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series is authorized by Archives general schedule Vital records, GRS-285

AUTHORIZED: 03/20/2002

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office permanently after being microfilmed.

Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently.

Microfilm duplicate: Retain in Office permanently.

Microfilm duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

These are historical records with vital statistics information; they should be kept permanently.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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