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Show 1 Short Shrift Will Be Given Violators . of Closing Order NEW YORK, Oct. 10 Warning that short shrift" will be given anv place of amusement neglecting the strictest attention to every sanitarv and health protecting regulations as part of the I paraPaJen against Spanish influenza in I this city was sounded tonight by Dr. Royal S. Copeland, commissioner of health. Ho also warned landlords that failyre to provide sufficient heat for their tenants will lead to prosecution. "It may be necessity to close the theatres later," said ur. Copeland after af-ter a conference with representatives of theatrical and motion plcturo interests, in-terests, "but that time is not here." The health commissioner reiterated his belief that the epidemic has not assumed serious proportions, pointing to the fact that "after four weeks of the epidemic, the most extreme and liberal estimate of Its rate of prevalence preva-lence has been much less, than two per cent." |