Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-20
The PUBLIC HEALTH
A Prominent Chicago Physician, Addressing
the Chicago Medical Society, Arraigns
Stock Yards Conditions.
He Predicts an Upheaval Among
the People Unless Things
Change.

1nsanitary conditions In the stock
yards We're severely censured by Dr.
ArnoH c. Klebs In lecture on "Con.
sumption and the Home" given In the
Public Library under the auspices Of
the Chicago Medical Society.
"Some day these insanitary condl.
tl0ns out at the stock yards will cause
. great upheaval In Chicago" he said.
''They are directly responsible for n
great deal OF the tuberculosis now
prevalent In Chicago. and firmly
believe that one of the greatest strides
that can be made towards stamping
cut this terrible disease is to bring
about proper conditions Mt the stock
yards"
The Beef Trust Will find It hard
- get resting place when the peo.
pie Of this country rise against II.
~ they surely will. The people OF the
whole world are crying for Its exter.
Dination.
10 tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than II was last year I
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
she city can refuse to continue the In.
spection and condemnation Of tuber.
eulosis and cancerous cattle at the
Stock Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
for culinary use out Of hogs that die
Of cholera?
How many thousands Of carcases
have the city inspectors condemned that
were found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
Where does oil the meat that ar
rives at the Stock Yards at night
come from?
Whose packing house was It that the
chief meat inspector went into an De
sember 30 last with orders to arrest
che President OF the concern for steal
ing cattle that had been tagged and
condemned;
Did not the President of this con.
ssrn surrender % condemned cattle
chat had been thus stolen and hidden
away?
How many condemned hogs have been
sold as mess pork?
IL II, or Is II not so, that some OF
the cattle condemned by city inspec
tors have been found with their whole
insides one mass of corruption?
Is 1t not true that the butchers al
the yards are afraid to cut some cattle
Or fear OF contracting contag!on them
sslvess
Is 1t true that many canned cattle
ere now killed outside the city and theil
sarcases shipped In with tumors ant
cancers stlll attached?
Why do Kansas City and othe
points ship their tuberculous, lumpy
tawed and cancer cattle TO Chicago?
Why ia It that diseased cattle can
not be shipped TO any point east o
Chicagof
Why Is II, and by whose orders wa
Il that after the city inspectors ha
condemned TO lumpy-jawed cattl
that they were released?
BY whose orders was II done?
Is there another city besides Chi
eago that will even allow a lumpy
jawed "critter' TO enter It?
Is II not true that in st. Louis eacl
lnmpy-Jawed beast means fine o
$500, and that In Toronto, Canada, tn
beast and even its hide are destroyed
In view Of the fact that the Healt
Department has officially stated tha
s. per cent Of the meat condemne
BY the city was afflicted with tubeT
culosis, why have the city inspector
been ordered 10 discontinue the worI
Of sondemning and destroying IT,?
Health Department Bulletin, Dec
.. 1905:
"a total OF 19s, ,0O2 pounds OF meat.
~ condemned by the department In
speseors at the Union Stock Yards