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Epidemiologic Studies

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Study Documentation

Autopsy Reports for Los Alamos/Zia Workers, 1959-1979

Location:

Active:
Inactive: LANL, Technical Area 59, Room 209, Los Alamos, NM 87545
Access Restrictions: Records are unclassified and may be a Privacy Act System of Records.

 Volume: 3.5 lin. in.

Accession or Other ID Number: None

 Condition: Fair
Container Number: Cabinet 4, Shelf 1

Medium: Paper
Scanning Suitability: Series contains some faded records.

 Duplication: Unknown
Arrangement: Alphabetical by name of deceased

Originating Office: Unknown

Finding Aids: Shelf list

Disposition Authority: Unscheduled

Series Description: These records, located in a binder labeled Autopsy Report, Tissue Section, Death Certificates [no death certificates are in the binder], were collected for a study of plutonium measurements in autopsy tissue samples. The records include abstracts of autopsy reports, which list autopsy book and page numbers and deceased employees' names, job titles, and death dates and causes. Also included are copies of autopsy reports, which indicate autopsy procedures, numbers, and dates; decedents' names, ages, and dates and causes of death; and names of pathologists who performed the autopsies.

For related records, see II. Los Alamos, General, Death Certificates for Los Alamos/Zia Company Autopsy Reports, 1959-1980.

Data Elements: 8, 28, 42, 54-55

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