Tooele County (Utah). County Clerk

These are report forms completed by midwives, doctors, and nurses attending births. In 1898, all "physicians and professional midwives" were required to "keep a register of each birth at which times they assist professionally" (Utah Rev._Stat._57:2029_(1898)). These forms are certified copies of their registers and were required to be to filed quarterly with the county clerk (Utah Rev._Stat._57:2032_(1898)). Each form reports ten births for the previous three months. They were used by the county clerk to register births occurring in Tooele County in the official "Register of Births." These forms include the name of the attending physician, midwife, or nurse, number of birth, sex, color, race, date of birth, place of birth, parents'

names and residence, name of informant, date of report for previous three months, signature, address, and date filed with the clerk and date entered in book. In 1905, the responsibility of registering births was given to the Division of Vital Statistics in the Health Department.

This series contains report forms submitted to the county clerk in accordance with a law passed in 1898, requiring that "all physicians and professional midwives must keep a register of each birth at which times they assist professionally" and that a certified copy of their registers must be filed quarterly with the county clerk (1898 Utah Revised Statutes, Title 57). The county clerk used the submitted forms to compile a listing of all births in Tooele County in the official "Register of Births" (Series 84240). The forms include such information as the location of births, child's sex, color, race, date and place of birth, parents' names and residence, name of informant, date of report, signature and address of informant, and date filed with the clerk. These forms were no longer used after 1905, when the system of reporting births was revised to place responsibility for registering births with the State Health Department.