Series 84248

DESCRIPTION: These records contain death registers for the years 1898–1905. 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 report, and assigned number. Individual certificates with the same information follow the register

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. Individual certificates follow the register.

RESEARCH NOTE: Deaths occurring in Ogden are not included on this register. The researcher should contact Weber County Vital Statistics.

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.