Cold Kills 87 in Britain
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LONDON — Eighty-seven people, most of them elderly, died from hypothermia during January’s cold spell in Britain, the government said in a report to Parliament. Junior Health Minister Edwina Currie said in a report Wednesday that hypothermia, subnormal body temperature, was included on 87 death certificates between Jan. 10 and Jan. 30.
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