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 File Type: Working
Directory Name: DISK3:[HMS.HMO.SUB7] File Name:HMOJUN91.DAT [aka HMO91]

Location:

Active: PNL, 300 Area, Building 3767, Room 5
Inactive:

Access Restrictions: Records are unclassified;
and may be a Privacy Act System of Records;
building is in an access-controlled area.

Hardware/Software: Digital MicroVAX 3600/ASCII file format
Office/Program Supported: Operations Analysis Department, HEHF; Epidemiology and Biometry Group, PNL

Originating Office: Operations Analysis Department, HEHF

Disposition Authority: DOE (1988) 1.3

File Description: This file, which contains 14,018 records of 71 characters and 11 fields each, provides mortality data for Hanford site construction and operations workers employed between 1944 and early 1991. In June of 1991, the Hanford Environmental Health Foundation assembled information concerning death dates, hand coded International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Ninth Revision causes of death, and the National Center for Health Statistics automated causes of death (ACMEOUT.HANFORD). Pacific Northwest Laboratory added names, birthdates, and ICD, Eighth Revision death causes to this information to create the file.

For related records and files, see Hanford Mortality (HMO) File Documentation Records, 1979-1984; HMO.DBF, AKAMAST.DBF, AKASSN.DBF, AKANAME.DBF; HMOEX98_ ASSOC.DAT [aka HMO91]; and HMOJUN91_SS.SRT [aka HMO91].

Data Elements: 7, 17, 54-55


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