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Show NO HELP FOR HER. Woman Is Dying While City and County Bandy Words. In a sort of shed-kitchen affair, the roof of which is propped up with scantlings scant-lings on the Inside a cold, squalid room, wherein the most ordinary comforts com-forts of life are unknown a woman lies dying: of paralysis. Tho room In at the rear of 117 South Fifth West street, within a block of tho city hall. The sick woman Is a Scandinavian, about 45 yeara old. Her husband Is a negro. He Is a cook by trade, but he has been cut of work for some time and Is unable un-able to secure medical attendance for bis white wife. The case has been reported re-ported to the city authorities, but the old difficulty Is encountered. The city can do nothing, because It Is a county cuse, and the county will do nothlnir because it is very properly a city case. And in the meantime the woman is dying from luck of the most ordinary attention. It may be that she has been addicted to strong drink, that sho has not the best kind of a record but she Is human. Living with this IlI-a.sforted pair of helpless. Irresponsible ones Is a five-year-old girl, said by the woman to be her granddaughter. Tho condition of this little one. In such surroundlncs, with such companions, can be lm-aglned. lm-aglned. perhaps It beggars description. Must It not be horribly stunted In body and mind If permitted to remain In such a place? Is there no remedy In a civilized community for such conditions? condi-tions? These are some of the questions ques-tions asked last night by persons who heard of the case, but nothing- wus done. |