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Death Certificate Records, 1944-1994

Location:

Active: HEHF, 3000 Area, Building 3090, Room 422
Inactive:

Access Restrictions: Records are unclassified; and may be a Privacy Act System of Records; building is in an access-controlled area.	*Volume*: 47.5 cu. ft.
Accession or Other ID Number: None	Condition: Good
Container Number: Records are in all drawers of the first through the fifth of nine adjacent 5-drawer file cabinets.	Medium: Paper
Scanning Suitability: Series contains faded photocopies and handwritten notes.	*Duplication*: Official death certificates are located at the relevant offices of vital statistics.

Arrangement: Mostly alphabetical by last name

Originating Office: Operations Analysis Department, HEHF

Finding Aids: RIDS Database

Disposition Authority: DOE (1988) 1.3

Series Description: This series consists of photocopies of death certificates for former Hanford employees. Attached to some certificates are forms titled Health and Mortality Data Input Information. Data on the certificates and corresponding forms include birthdates, death dates, sex, race, cohort (i.e., construction or operations personnel designation), and an entry from the "Nosology ICD-9 Submission Code " (i.e., cause of death in standardized code from the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision).

For related records, see Benton and Franklin Counties Monthly Mortality Reports, 1988-1993 and Hanford Environmental Health Foundation (HEHF) Death Certificate Retrieval Records, 1970-1974, 1983-1986, 1989, 1991-1994.

Data Elements: 6-13, 17-18, 20-21, 23, 53-56