Los Alamos National Laboratory: Study Documentation

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Epidemiologic Studies

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Study Documentation

Death Certificates, 1943-1991

Location:

Active:
Inactive: LANL, Technical Area 59, Rooms 203, 207, and 209; Los Alamos, NM 87545

Access Restrictions: Records are unclassified and may be a Privacy Act System of Records. (114 binders)	*Volume*: ca. 31 cu. ft.
Accession or Other ID Number: None	Condition: Good to poor; some are extremely faded and blurred.
Container Number: Room 203: Lateral file cabinet; Room 207: Cabinets near window; Room 209: Cabinet 1, Shelves 1, 3, and 4; Cabinet 3, Shelf 4; Cabinet 4, Shelf 5; Cabinet 5, Shelf 5; Cabinet 7, Shelf 3; Lateral file cabinet under window	Medium: Paper
Scanning Suitability: Series contains faded, handwritten records, post-it notes, and computer-generated reports.	*Duplication*: Original certificates are in the state vital statistics offices, and duplicate certificates are in many of the binders in the Epidemiologic Section

Arrangement: By study name, thereafter alphabetical by name

Originating Office: Various state vital statistics offices and health departments

Finding Aids: Shelf list

Disposition Authority: Unscheduled

Series Description: This series contains coded and uncoded death certificates used in support of epidemiologic studies concerning Los Alamos, Mound, Pantex, Rocky Flats, Savannah River, and Zia Company workers. Each death certificate provides the decedent's name, address, sex, dates and places of birth and death, age on last birthday, race, sex, nationality, marital status, spouse's name, parents' names, social security number, occupation, cause of death, attending physician's name, and cemetery location. A binder labeled Los Alamos Women Death Certificates also contains computer-generated reports regarding Los Alamos female employees. One report contains employee names, social security numbers, study numbers, dates of birth and death, and causes of death (indicated in codes assigned by Oak Ridge Associated Universities). Another report contains study numbers, employee names and social security numbers, and information concerning attempts to trace the employees' vital status. Statistical analyses of the data are also included.

For related records, see II. General, Death Certificates for New Mexico, Indexes, 1940-1980.

Data Elements: 7-9, 11-13, 17-18, 20-21, 23, 28, 53-56