UTSV3864-A Salt Lake County (Utah) Death Registers, 1898-1905 Finding aid written in English UTAH STATE ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICESeries 3864 SALT LAKE COUNTY (UTAH). COUNTY CLERK

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DEATH REGISTERS1898-1905 1 microfilm reel

DESCRIPTION: These records contain death registers for the years 1898-1905. Each entry the decedent's name, occupation, age, marital status, sex, race, color, residence, term of residence, date of death, cause of death, the name of the informant making the report, and an assigned number.

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.

RELATED RECORDS: Series 81448, Death certificates of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, contains death records after 1904. Series 20900 is an alphabetical index.

FINDING AIDS:Series 20900 is an alphabetical index based on the first letter of the decedent' s surname.

PROCESSING NOTE:This series was processed by M. Call in September 1998. Hard copy and a film copy was transferred to the Salt Lake County Archives in 2001; a film copy was also retained.