Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07
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 stock
yards We're severely censured by DR..
Arnold 9. 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.
lions out at the stock yards will cause
Q great upheaval In Chicago" he said.
''They 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 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
% get n resting place when the peo
pie OF this country rise against It.
n they surely will. The people OF the
whole world are crying for Its exter.
mination.
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Is tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than 1t was last year 4.
In another column will be found ex.
tracts from the Health Department an.
nual report aud 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 ut the
Stock Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
for culinary use out Of hogs that die
Of cholera?
How many thousands OF carcascs
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 1t 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
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
insldes one mass of corruption?
Is 1t not true that the butchers nj
the yards are afraid TO cut some cattle
or fear OF contracting contagIon them.
selves?
Ii IL 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 Is II that diseased cattle can
not be shipped TO 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 We're released?
BY whose orders was II done?
Is there another city besides Chi.
cago that will even allow a lumpy-
Jawed "critter' 10 enter IL?
Is 1t not true that in st. Louis each
lnmpy-tawed beast means fine OF
$500, and that in Toronto, Canada, the
beast and even It's 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-
culosls. why have the city inspectors
been ordered to discontinue the work
Of condemning and destroying II?
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
80. 1905:
"a total OF 19S. .OO2 hounds of meats