Tooele County (Utah). County Clerk Death reports, 1898-1905.

This series contains report forms submitted by physicians or persons in attendance at deaths. According to state statute, "Physicians who attend deceased persons in their last sickness, clergyman who officiate at funerals, justices of the peace who hold inquests, and sextons and undertakers who bury deceased persons, must each keep a registry of the name, age, residence, and time of death of such person" (Utah Rev._Stat._57:2031_(1898)). The submitted forms were used by the clerk to maintain a register of deaths in Tooele County. Each form contains space for the recording of six deaths. The reports include name of person making report, number of death, name of deceased, date of death, place of death, length of residence, sex, color, race, age, occupation, cause of death, marital status, birth place, last place of residence, name of informant, and date filed with clerk. These reports were no longer produced after 1905, when the responsibility of registering births and deaths was removed from the county clerk and given to the State Health Department with local registrars.