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Show ; did what he could for it, but it was -1 too late.- The child died in about an hour and will be buried at the expense of the county .Herald A, Child Poisoned. Yesterday the i-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs G. W. Conway, . poor people living' at Five points, sucked the phosphorous off a lot of matches and before her act had been discovered discov-ered was in a serious condition. The parents at once brought ;he child to the city and went to the office of ex-County ex-County physician Rich. He informed inform-ed them that he was not the, county physician, declined to treat the child, they being unable to pay anything, and refered them to the county commissioners. It took them something some-thing like an hour and a half to find the commissioners and they were then sent to the ' office of County Physician Con'roy, who. was not in. By this time the child was dying, and D. Powers, noticed the distracted distract-ed parents, inquired into the matter and on learning the situation quickly took the sufferer into his office and 1 |