Series 23382

BRIGHAM CITY (UTAH). CITY RECORDER [2926]

DEATH REGISTER, 1898-1941.
1 microfilm reel

A separate agency history is available.

DESCRIPTION: The Brigham City recorder kept a register of deaths. In it he recorded the decedent's name, age, gender, race, occupation, marital status, place of residence, and date and cause of death. The recorder began this register in compliance with an 1898 law which required each physician, clergyman, justice of the peace and undertaker to keep such a register and to quarterly file the same with the county clerk or the board of health in incorporated cities (Revised Statutes of Utah 1898, Title 57, p. 474-475). In 1904, the Utah legislature passed a law requiring uniform death certificates to be kept by the state, and at that time most county and municipal officials stopped keeping death registers. However, the Brigham City recorder continued to keep this record for 36 more years.

ARRANGEMENT: Entries were made in the death register chronologically in the order reported, which is only roughly by date of death.

RELATED RECORDS: Beginning in 1904, DEATH CERTIFICATES, series 81448, provide more complete and easily accessible information about deaths. Entries in this register before 1904 may also be duplicated in the Box Elder County Clerk's DEATH REGISTERS, series 84099.

PROCESSING NOTE: The Brigham City death register was microfilmed by Utah State Archives in December 2000 and processed by Rosemary Cundiff in August 2001.

PREFERRED CITATION: Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.