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Show SEEKS TO PREVENT SPREAD OF DISEASE Ogden Inspector Would Bar Children From Motion Picture Shows and School In Present Crisis. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Dec. 30. Due to a steady increase in contagious diseases among the children of the city. Health Inspector In-spector George Shorten will appeal to the legal department for information concerning Ins authority with a view to having the motion picture theaters closed to children. According to the inspector it will be impossible to curb the epidemic of measles, scarlet fever and other diseases of children, unless steps are taken to keep the afflicted ones from miugling with others. Inspector Shorten has already issued a notice asking that ,ew lear s parties par-ties for children be abandoned this year and that, the public schools not be opened until January 8, instead of January Jan-uary 3, as originally planned. He points out that contagion will spread more rapidly by reason of the motion picture theater than if the children chil-dren were in school, for the reason that any child is permitted to enter the thea-tor, thea-tor, while teachers have rieid instructions instruc-tions to send homo any child showing indications of sickness. In discussing the problem of having the theaters closed to children, Inspector Inspec-tor Shorten stated today that he was uncertain as to his authority in this regard. |