AGENCY: Beaver County (Utah). County Clerk

SERIES: 27396
TITLE: Death record
DATES: 1881-1949.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by the first letter of the surname, thereunder chronological.

DESCRIPTION: 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: 03/16/2010

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

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

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

APPRAISAL

Historical

The death register provides useful historical information for family historians and health statisticians.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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