500+ homeless people died in Sacramento County in past 10 years: study

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/19/6015644/study-at-least-500-homeless-people.html

Many of them took their final breaths alone and anonymously, in narrow alleys, empty fields or cold riverbeds.

During the past 11 years in Sacramento County, at least 501 men, women and children have died homeless, according to the first comprehensive analysis of its kind in the region. That equates to a rate of about one death per week.

About 38 percent of those deaths, all of which were documented by the County Coroner’s Office, occurred outdoors.

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