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...Died. Laura Lee, 87, militant suffragette of the Gay Nineties who introduced horrified Boston to the poodle cut and the one-piece bathing suit, helped start a national fad when she wore bloomers (which she cut out and sewed herself) to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; of a broken neck incurred in a fall; in Melrose, Mass...
There, Dr. Hans Jaeger (an experienced German physician not yet licensed to practice in Illinois) examined Laura Jean. He saw no sign of shock and told a nurse how to dress the burns. Then he asked Mrs. Lingo whether she had hospitalization insurance. She did not. Could she put up $100 deposit? She could not. Then, said the doctor, the baby would have to go to Cook County Hospital. 10½ miles away. He was sure that she would be all right in a car, and he gave Mrs. Lingo a note to arrange for the admission...
...took well over an hour to get to County Hospital, but Laura Jean seemed no worse and was promptly admitted. Two interns and a resident pediatrician saw no evidence of shock; they changed the dressing on her burns and put her to bed. Late at night she awoke and played. But in the morning she was dead...
Last week the case of Laura Jean Lingo got a full official airing. Had she received adequate emergency treatment at Woodlawn? Medical witnesses agreed that she had. Had her life been endangered by Woodlawn's refusal to admit her? Doctors thought not. What had she died of? Dr. Jerry Kearns, coroner's physician, said he was sure she had died of the burns, but in fact nobody knew, because Coroner Walter McCarron (no physician but a politician) decided not to order an autopsy...
...coroner's jury brought in a verdict that death was accidental and that officials at Woodlawn Hospital had been grossly (but not criminally) negligent, because an unregistered physician treated Laura Jean and the police were not notified. Seated beside her husband John, a factory worker, Mrs. Lingo cried: "She was my only baby . . . I'll never forget this...