Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-25
A Prominent Chicago Physician, Addressing
the Chicago Medical Society, Arraigns
Stock Yards Conditions.
He Predicts an Upheaval Among
the People Unless Things
Change.

fnsanitary conditions In the stock
yards We're severely censured By DIR.
Arnold 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.
lions 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 IL to bring
about proper conditions ut the stock
yards"
Tie Beef Trust will find II hard
- get resting plnce when the peo.
pc Of this country rise against It
- they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for its exter.
mination.
ls 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 IN.
uual 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.
culosis and cancerous cattle ut the
Stock Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
tor 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 all the meat that ar.
eives at the Stock Yards ut night
come from7
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 bidder.
away;
How many condemned hogs have been
sold as mess pork:
Is II, or Is 1t not so, that some of
the cattle condemned by city lnspec.
tors have been found with their whole
lnsides one mass of corruption?
Is 1t not true that the butchers at
the yards are afraid 10 cut some cattle
or fear Of contracting contagion them.
selves?
IL 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 othel
points ship their tubercuIous, lumpy
jawed and cancer cattle 10 ChIcagoi
Why Is Il that diseased cattle can
not be shipped 10 any point east o.
Chicagoi
Why Is II, and by whose orders wal
II that after the city inspectors haC
condemned 40 lumpy-Jawed eatt'
that they were "released"l
BY whose orders was II donei
Is there another city besides Chi
cago that will even allow a lumpy
jawed 'critter' 10 enter It?
Is II not true that in st. Louis eacl
lumpy-jawed beast means fine OF
$500, and that in Toronto, Canada, th'
beast and even its hide are destroyed
In view OF the fact that the Healti
Department has officially stated tha
s5 per cent Of the meat condemned
by the city was afflicted with tuber
culosis, why have the city inspectors
been ordered TO discontinue the worn
Of condemning and destroying It;
Health Department Bulletin, Dec