Series 84030

DESCRIPTION: These records contain death registers for the years 1900–1901 and 1904–1905. Each entry has the decedent' s name, occupation, age, marital status, sex, race, color, residence, term of residence, cause of death, the name of the informant making the report, and an assigned number. There are no dates of death for the years 1900–1901.

Beginning in 1898, each physician, clergyman, justice of the peace, and undertaker was required to keep a registry of the name, age, residence, and time of death of the decedent. Each person registering deaths filed quarterly with the county clerk or the local board of health in the case of incorporated cities. (Revised Statutes of Utah 1898, Title 57, p. 474–475)

In 1905, the state passed a law requiring each county to file a uniform certificate with the State Bureau of Vital Statistics.

ARRANGEMENT: These records are chronological by year but not by month. Entries were recorded in order of report, not by date of death.

RESEARCH NOTE: The years 1902-1903 are not included in the register. It is unknown whether these dates were not included because there were no deaths to record, the county clerk failed to record them, or the records themselves are missing.

RELATED RECORDS: Series 81448, Death certificates of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, contains death records after 1904.

PROCESSING NOTE: Processed by M. Call in September 1998.