Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-15
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 were severely censured by Dr.
Arnold c. Klebs In a lecture on "Con.
sumption and the Home" given In the
Public Library under the auspices of
the Chicago Medical Society.
"Some day these insanitary condi.
lions out at tho stock yards will cause
q great upheaval In Chicago" he said.
''rhey IRE 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 1t hard
% get resting place when the peo.
pie Of this country rise against II.
a. they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for its exter.
minatlon.
Is tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than II was last year!
In another column will be found OK.
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 Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
for 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.
rives at the Stock Yards ut night
come from?
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
ting 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!
Il IL, or Is II not so, that some OF
the cattle condemned by city inspec.
tors have been found with their whole
insides one mass Of corruption?
Is IL not true that the butchers at
the yards are afraid TO cut some cattle
Nor fear OF contracting contaglon them.
selves?
Is 1t true that many canned cattle
are now killed outside the city and their
carcascs shipped In with tumors and
cancers stlll attachedf
Why do Kansas City and other
points ship their tuberculous, lumpy-
jawcd and cancer cattle 10 ChlcagoI
Why Is 1t that diseased cattle can
not be shipped 10 any point east OF
ChicaGOf
Why IL II, and by whose orders was
1t that after the city inspectors had
condemned 10 lumpy-jawed cattle
thar they were released?
Ey whose orders was II done?
Is there another city besides Chi.
cagO that will even allow a lumpy-
jawed "critter'' TO enter it,
Is II not true that In ST. Louis each
lumpyJawed beast means fine Of
$500, and that In Toronto, Canada, the
beast and even its hide are destroyed
III 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-
cuiosis, why have the city inspectors
been ordered to discontinue the work
Of condemnlng and destroying III
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
-. 1906:
"a total OF los. .0O2 pounds OF meats
Was condemned by the department In