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Show "MOVIE" HABIT IS HELD DEATH'S AID Salt l ake. .Ian. 21. Bronchial-pneumonia has claimed so many victims among infants this winter that when the figures pertaining to infant mortality mor-tality for 1914 are compiled they will show that the great saving o'f the lives of babies during the summer months by means of the milk stations has been practically nullified The mortality rate fell off so remarkably during the summer months that the health department was hopeful of breaking all records in 1914, but. with the coming of winted, so many babies died of pneumonia that the saving Is about balanced bv the loss. Officials of the health department are at a loss to account for the alarming alarm-ing increase In deaths from pneu- nionia among infants in arms. Lack of proper care on the part of the parents par-ents Is undoubtedly one of the prin cipal causes, they' declare. Miss Ellen Lees, of the corps of health department nurses, whose duty is to keep the records of vital 8tatis tics, advances the theory that the motion picture shows are to blame. She ha noticed that hundreds of children are carried on their mothers' moth-ers' arms each night to the show houses, in many instances the moth ers do not remove the bundle of wraps from the child while In the theater and, in consequence, the child contracts con-tracts a severe cold upon being brought into the cold night air with no additional wraps to counteract the severe change in the temperature, i have seen babies by the score ; brought from the theaters all warm and perspiring from the close atmos-phero atmos-phero of the interior and carried out I Into the frec.ing night air."' she said. "Naturally the little ones catch cold, and In many Instances pneumonia follows fol-lows If the mothers would but think to unwrap their babies while in the theaters the death rate from pneumonia pneu-monia would be much less, I believe." rw-i |