Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-28
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 were severely censured by DIR.
Arnold c. Klebs In lecture on "Con.
sumption ana the Home" given In the
Public Library under the auspices Of
the Chicago Medical Society.
''Some day these insnnitary condi.
eions out at the stock yards will cause
Q great upheaval In Chicago" he said.
''Thcy are directly responsible for a
great deal Of the tuberculosis now
prevalent In Chicago. and I firmly
believe that one Of the greatest strides
that can he made towards stamping
out this terrible disease is 10 bring
about proper conditions at the stock
yards"
The Beef Trust will find II hard
% get a 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.
mination.
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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 aud the facts they contain that
the city can refuse to continue the In.
0pection and condemnation OF tuber.
culosIs and cancerous cattle at the
Stock Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
Tor culinary use out Of hogs that die
OF cholera;
How many thousands OF carcnses
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 at night
come fromy
Whose packing house was II that the
chief meat inspector went into an De
cember 80 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
tnat had been thus stolen and hidden
away?
How many condemned hogs nave been
sold as mess porki
IL II, or Il II not so, that some OF
the cattle condemned by city inspec-
tors have been found with their whole
insides one mass of corruption?
u II not true that the butchers ut
the yards are afraid 10 cut some cattle
or fear Of contracting contaglon them.
selves?
IL IL true that many canned cattle
are now killed outside the city and their
carcases shipped In with tumOrs and
cancers stlll attached?
Why do Kansas City and other
points ship their tuberculOus, lumpy.
jawed and cancer cattle 10 Chicago?
Why Is II that diseased cattle can.
not be shipped 70 any point east OF
Chicago;
Why Is II, and by whose orders was
Il 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.
caeo that will even allow "a lumpy-
jawed "critter" 10 enter IL:
Is IL not true that In st. Louis each
lumpy-jawed beast means fine OF
$JID and that In Torouto Canada tho
beast and even its hide are destroyed?
In View Of the fact that the Health
Department has officially stated that
- 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 III
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Health Department bulletin, Dec