     ACCORDING TO INITIAL INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM HOSPITAL RECORDS: DECEASED WAS VISITING MIAMI FROM NEW YORK AND STAYING WITH RELATIVES AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. 
     PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION AND MULTIPLE CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENTS FROM WHICH SHE RECOVERED FROM ALL OF THEM. SHE ALSO HAS A HISTORY OF ANEURYSM CLIPPING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HER BRAIN.

     AUGUST 29, 1996 DECEASED WAS ADMITTED TO COLUMBIA DEERING HOSPITAL THROUGH THE EMERGENCY ROOM AFTER SHE DEVELOPED DECREASED ABILITY TO MOVE THE LEFT SIDE OF HER BODY AND INABILITY TO SPEAK COHERENTLY. SHE WAS ADMITTED WITH THE FOLLOWING DIAGNOSIS: CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT, RULE OUT SEIZURE.  ADMISSION URINE WAS POSITIVE FOR COCAINE AND BENZODIAZEPINES. ADMITTING CT SCAN SHOWED MULTIPLE OLD CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENTS AND A RIGHT LACUNAR INFARCT, COMPRESSED SULCI AND SOME EDEMA CONSISTANT WITH RIGHT MCA INFARCTION.  SHE WAS AWAKE AND ALERT UPON ADMISSION, HOWEVER HER CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE AND SHE DEVELOPED A SWALLOWING DYSFUNCTION.  SUBSEQUENTLY SHE REQUIRED EMERGENCY INTUBATION, HOWEVER HER CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE AND SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON SEPTEMBER 8, 1996.
     THE BODY WAS RELEASED TO VAN ORSDEL FUNERAL AND LATER BROUGHT IN TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE AFTER THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN LISTED THE CAUSE OF DEATH AS BEING CEREBRAL EDEMA, DUE TO STROKE, DUE TO COCAINE ABUSE. 

                            *** REFILED ON DECEMBER 27, 1996 ***  [BAR]