Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-22
The PUBLIC HEALTH
A Prominent Chicago Physician, Addressing
the Chicago Medical Society, Arraisns
Stock Yards Conditions.
He Predicts an Upheaval Among
the People Unless Things
Change.

Insanitary conditions In the stock
yards were severely eensured by DR..
AsuoN G. klebs In lecture On "Con.
Sumption and the Home" given In the
Public Library under the auspices OF
~ Chicago Medical Society.
'eome day these insanitary condi.
t,ous out at the stock yards will cause
q Gveat upheaval In Chicago" be said.
They are directly responsible for n
great deal Of the tuberculosis now
prsvaIsnt In Chicago. and firmly
be1ievs that one OF the greatest strides
that can be made towards stamping
out this terrible disease Ia to bring
absvt proper conditions at the stock
ysrds."
TIE Beef Trust will ind It hard
- eet a resting place when the peo.
~ Of this country rise against II
- they surely will. The people Of the
WAole world are crying for It's exter.
manation.
IL tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than II was last year.
In another column will be found ex.
tracts from the Health Department an.
nual report and weekly bulletins. Do
you think that In the face Of these doc.
uments and the facts they contain that
The city can refuse to continue the In.
spection and condemnation Of tuber.
culosis and cancerous cattle at the
Stock Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
for culinary use out Of hogs that die
Of cholerar
How many thousands OF carcase'
have the city inspectors condemned TINT
were found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
Where does all the meat that ar
Fives at the Stock Yards at night
come fromT
Whose packing house was It that the
chief meat inspector went into an De-
cember 80 last with orders to arrest
ths President OF the concern for steal
Ing cattle that had been tagged and
condemned!
Did not the President OF this con-
~ern surrender % condemned cattle
that had been thus stolen and hidden
awayi
How many condemned hogs have been
sold as mess pork?
IL Il, OF u X not SO, that some OF
the cattle condemned by city inspec'
tors have been found with their whole
iDsides one mass Of corruption?
Is II not true that the butchers N
the yards are afraid to cut some cattle
<Or fear OF contracting contagion them
selves?
IL II true that many canned cattle
are now killed outside the city and their
carcases shipped In with tumors aud
cancers still attached?
Why do Kansas City and othel
points ship their tuberculous, lumpy
3awed and cancer cattle TO Chicago?
Why is II that diseased cattle can
not be shipped TO any point east OF
Chicago;
Why is II, and by whose orders was
II that after the city inspectors had
condemned 10 lumpy-jawed cattle
that they were released?
BY whose orders was II done?
Is there another city besides Chi
cago that will even allow lumpy'
jawed "critter'' to enter II?
Is II not true that in ST. Louis each
lumpy-jawed beast means fine OF
$500, and that In Toronto, Canada, the
beast and even its hide are destroyed
In view OF the fact that the Health
Department has officially stated that
s. per cent Of the meat condemned
by the city was afflicted with tuber'
culosis, why have the city inspectors
been ordered 10 discontinue the work
Of condemning and destroying Il?
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
.. 1905:
"a total OF 19s,002 pounds OF mea ts
vas condemned by the department in
0ectors at the Union Stock Yards