Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-11-10
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.

Insanitary conditions In the stool;
yards were severely censured by DIR.
ArnoS G. Klebs I'm n 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.
lions out ut the stock yards will cause
a great upheaval In Chicago" he said.
''They are directly responsible for n
great deal of the tuberculosis now
prevalent In Chicago, and I firmly
believe that one of the greatest strides
that can be made towards stamping
out this terrible disease Is to bring
about proper conditions ut the stock
yards"
The Beef Trust will find It hard
b get resting place when the peo
pie Of this country rise against It.
40 they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for Its exter
minatiOn.
~eA
Ia tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than 1t 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.
culosls and cancerous cattle ut the
Stock YardsI
How many concerns make fancy lard
for culinary use out Of hogs that die
Of chOlerai
How many thousands OF carcases
have the city inspectors condemned that
we're found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
Where does all the meat that ar'
rives at the Stock Yards Mt night
come from?
Whose packing house was 1t 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 ~ condemned cattle
that had been thus stolen and hidden
away?
How many condemned hogs have been
sold as mess pork?
Is II, or IL 1t 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 ut
the yards are afraid to cut some cattle
or fear OF contracting contaglon them.
selyesi
Il 1t 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 other
points ship their tuberculous, lumpy
jawed and cancer cattle TO Chicago?
Why j. II that diseased cattle can
not be shipped 70 any point east OF
Chicago?
Why Is II, and by whose orders was
II that after the city inspectors had
condemned 40 lumpy.jawed cattle
that they were "released"f
By whose orders was II done;
Is there another city besides Chi,
cago that will even allow lumpy,
jawed "critter" 10 enter it?
Is II not true that IN st. Louis each
lumpy-J awed beast means a fine oil
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 10 discontinue the work
OF condemning and destroying II?
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%, 1906
"a total OF I9s, O02 pounds OF meats
vas condemned by the department In.
sgectorx at the Union stock Yards