MEDICAL DETECTIVES UNRAVEL STRANGE CAUSE OF DEATH:?.. 00s.
-. "Ever'since ‘the winter of 1962-63 Britain's doctors have been searching: for an. answer" to the déaths of 20,000-0ld people that year, Now they know. They "froze to death, or died of diseases. rendered” a acute by cold," reports the December. 23 United Press, ner
“A groltip of British medical experts made ‘this monumental discovery by using therriometers that take lower readings ‘than the stan«dard instrument. Thus they stumbled across cases of "hypothermia";°. ive., freezing, The victims were not trying toiconmmit suicide, . ‘their pensions were simply.too low to* provide’ more-.-than:!!lonely rootis or. flats" lacking "minimum standards of warmth. " Besides this, they needed “the:right sort of food," tt Be BE
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