AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services. Community Health and Well-Being. Division of Population Health. Office of Communicable Diseases.

SERIES: 6596
TITLE: Tuberculosis register cards
DATES: i 1940-1978.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by district.

DESCRIPTION: These are summary cards documenting treatment that tuberculosis patients receive. These cards were created from information contained in older closed charts.___

Included in these records are the patient's name, age, birth date gender, nationality, ethnicity, race, marital status, name of kin, occupation, employer, current and past addresses, medical information, military service, social security number, telephone number. A complete record of the patient's treatment including the results of laboratory tests and X-rays, and a complete record of the patient's contacts while contagious including the contact's name and address, relationship to the patient, age, sex, race, the date, type and results of tuberculin tests, the date, size, x-ray results, and any remarks.

RETENTION

Retain for 30 year(s)

DISPOSITION

Destroy.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Records Center for 30 years and then destroy.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Historical

This retention period was set to ensure that this information would be available if any of these patients should have a relapse. A 30 year retention period should be adequate to cover the life span of these patients.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Private. Utah Code 63G-2-302

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