From the Sept. 28, 2008 Neatorama.com post:
Death
On October 3, 1849, Poe was found wandering the streets of Baltimore, an absolute mess and completely delirious.
It would appear that he was wildly drunk, and he was definitely wearing someone else’s clothes. He was taken to the hospital, but never came to enough to explain what had happened, and his death certificate is missing so we don’t even know what the official cause is, but newspapers reported “congestion of the brain” and “cerebral inflammation”. So what really happened?..
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Actually, his death has several different theories, including rabies and opium
That would make sense, considerin he was damaged mentally when he was found.
The man who found him did claim he was “In a great deal of distress”.
He was confined to a terrible room in the hospital for those who were drunken, it was nothing like an actual stay at the hospital even by there standards, some believe that he had taken overdoses in order to kill himself.