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Show . ; PNEUMONIA CAUSED BY STEAM HEATING j NEW TORK. Dec 5. Does the luxuri- us steam-heated flat number more vic-i vic-i tixns than the deadly automobile? Some doctors think so. They say that before the ' big, comfortable apartment houses sprang Into existence there was less . pneumonia than the-e is today; hence ' they charge the rapidly increasing num- ber of cas3S to the bad effects of living ' axL-y sleeping in rooms that are over-' over-' fcesfeed and poorly ventilated. During the last, month there were 682 deaths from pneumonia In Greater New Tork. By far the greater number of these deaths were : in what Is known as the apartment ' house districts. |