Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-08
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.

lnsanitary conditions In the stock
yArds were severely eensured bS DIR.
Arnold G. klebs In a lecture on "Con.
sumption and the Home." given Ia the
Public Library under the auspices OF
She Chicago Medical Society.
'eome day these insanitary condI.
Mons 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
out this terrible disease Ia to bring
about proper conditions at the stock
yards"
The Beef Trust will hnd It hard
- get a resting place when the peo-
pSe OF this country rise against Il,
- they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for Its exter.
0inati0n.
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10 tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than It was last yeari
In another column will be found ex.
tracts from the Health Department an.
aual 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.
cuiosis 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 c0rcases
have the city inspectors condemned that
were found hanging In coolers with the
Tuberculosis trimmed out?
Where does all the meat that ar.
rives at the Stock Yards ut night
come fromI
Whose packing house was It that the
chief meat inspector went into an De-
cember 30 last with orders to arrest
the President OF the concern for steal
Ing cattle that had been tagged and
condemned?
Did not the President Of this con.
~ern surrender 81 condemned cattle
that had been thus stolen and hidden
away?
How many condemned hogs have been
sold as mess pork?
Is II. or Is IL not so. that some Of
the cattle condemned by city inspec-
tors have been found with their whole
insides one mass Of corruption?
Is II not true that the butchers at
the yards are afraid TO cut some cattle
or fear Of contracting contaglon them
selves?
IL II true that many canned cattle
are now killed outside the city and their
carcases shipped In with tumors and
cancers still attached:
Why do Kansas City and othei
points ship their tuberculous, lumpy
jawed and cancer cattle to Chicago?
Why Is IL that diseased cattle can
not be shipped TO any point east OF
Chicsgoy
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 1t done?
Is there another city besides Chi
csgo that will even allow lumpy'
1awed "critter' to enter Il:
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
81 per cent OF the meat condemned
by the city was afflicted with tuber
culosis, why have the city inspectors
been ordered TO discontinue the work
Of condemning and destroying It?
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec
%, 1906:
- total Of los ,002 pounds OF meats
vas condemned BY the department In.
x~ctors at the Union stock Yards