Epidemiologic Studies

Hanford Site

Hanford Environmental Health Foundation (HEHF) Death Certificate Retrieval Records, 1970-1974, 1983-1986, 1989, 1991-1994

Location: Active: HEHF, 3000 Area, Building 3090, Room 422
Inactive: RHA, 712 Building, Federal Center

Access Restrictions: Records are unclassified; and may be a Privacy Act System of Records; building is in an access-controlled area.	Volume: Approximately 2.3 cu. ft.
Accession or Other ID Number: HEHF: 1) None; RHA: 2) 99959, 126004, 126013	Condition: Good to fair
Container Number: 1) Records are in the fourth drawer of the fifth of nine adjacent 5-drawer file cabinets; 2) 99959, 126004, 126013	Medium: Paper and 5-1/4-inch and 3-1/2-inch disks
Scanning Suitability: Series consists of key-punch cards, computer disks, computer- generated reports, handwritten notes, and forms.	Duplication: Unknown

Arrangement: Most of the records are not arranged; records in Container Number 126013 are arranged by agency to which requests were made (i.e., Social Security Administration, state departments of vital statistics), thereafter chronological by year.

Originating Office: Operations Analysis Department, HEHF

Finding Aids: 1) RIDS Database; 2) RHA-MIS Database

Disposition Authority: DOE (1988) 1.3

Series Description: This series is comprised of correspondence pertaining to the acquisition of death certificates of former Hanford employees for the Atomic Energy Commission Hanford Health and Mortality Study. Inquiries were sent from various staff members of the Hanford Environmental Health Foundation (HEHF) primarily to the Benton and Franklin counties' health departments, the Oak Ridge Center for Epidemiologic Research, Pensions and Benefits Incorporated (a statistical data collection company) and the Center for Health Statistics of the Washington State Department of Health. Also interfiled in the records are photocopies of death certificates, computer-generated reports, computer documentation, and database edits. Container Number 99959 contains Thomas Mancuso's correspondence related to death certificates. A file in Container Number 126013, labeled Milham Roster, pertain to HEHF's attempts to obtain mortality data from the Washington Department of Health through the Washington State Occupational Mortality Surveillance System. Computer disks included in the series were not reviewed.

For related records, see Benton and Franklin Counties Monthly Mortality Reports, 1988-1993 and Death Certificate Records, 1944-1994 .

Data Elements: 6-8, 17, 20, 28, 53-54, 56