   ACCORDING TO INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RECORDS,  THE DECEASED WAS AN INMATE AT DADE COUNTY JAIL (TGK).    ON AUGUST 16, 1996, WHILE AT THE JAIL, HIS NURSE FOUND IN BED, ALERT AND ORIENTED X2.  ACCORDING TO THE NURSE, HE HAD BEEN LETHARGIC AND WEAK FOR A FEW DAYS .  HIS B/P INCREASED TO 210/120, HE BECAME MILDLY DISTRESSED AND REQUIRED A MORE EXTENSIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT.  FIRE RESUCE WAS CALLED AND UPON ARRIVAL HIS VITAL SIGNS WERE AS FOLLOWS:   PULSE 110, RESP. 17, B/P 170/100 AND EKG MONITOR SHOWING SINUS TACH.  EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.

    UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HE WAS ALERT AND ORIENTED X 2, B/P 189/121, BUT IT DECREASED TO 150/103 WITH PROCRADIA.  TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED, HOWEVER, HIS CONDITION DETERIORATED.  HIS MENTAL STATUS BECAME ALTERED.    ADVANCE MEDICAL TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED, HOWEVER, HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE AND ON AUGUST 22, 1996, AT4:25P.M., HE EXPIRED.  

HE HAS A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME, TURBERCULOSIS AND HYPERTENSION.