AGENCY: Tooele County (Utah). County Clerk

SERIES: 3539
TITLE: Death reports
DATES: 1898-1905.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological by filing date, thereunder alphabetical by submitting physician name.

DESCRIPTION: These are report forms completed by physicians or person in attendance at deaths. "Physicians who attend deceased persons in their last sickness, clergyman who officiate at funerals, justices of the peace who hold inquests, and sextons and undertakers who bury deceased persons, must each keep a registry of the name, age, residence, and time of death of such person" (Utah Rev._Stat._57:2031_(1898)). They were used by the clerk to register deaths occurring in Tooele County. Each report contains space for the recording of six deaths. The reports include name of person making report, number of death, name of deceased, date of death, place of death, length of residence, sex, color, race, age, occupation, cause of death, marital status, birth place, last place of residence, name of informant, and date filed with clerk. In 1905, Utah became a registry state and the responsibility of registering births and deaths was removed from the office of county clerk and given to the Health Department with local registrars.

RETENTION

Retain permanently

DISPOSITION

May Transfer to Archives.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

APPROVED: 06/1990

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently.

Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently.

M-Disc: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This series has permanent historical value both because of the its value to genealogical researchers, as well as the documentation it provides of the early process for documenting deaths in county.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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