Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-06
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.
ArnoE 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.
tions out ut the stock yards will cause
great upheaval In Chicago" he said.
''rhey 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"
The Beef Trust will hnd It hard
b get resting place when the peo.
pie Of this country rise against It.
% they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for Its exter.
mination.
10 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 and the facts they contain that
the city can refuse to continue the In.
spection and condemnation Of tuber.
culosis and cancerous cattle at 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
we're found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
Where does all the meat that ar.
rives at the Stock Yards at 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.
ins 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 Is II not so. that some Of
the cattle condemned by city inspec.
tors have been found with their whole
insldes one mass Of corruption?
Is It not true that the butchers at
the yards are afraid to cut some cattle
or fear Of contracting contaglon them.
selves?
Is II 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 70 any point east Of
Chicagof
Why Is IL, and by whose orders was
It that after the city inspectors had
condemned 10 lumpy.jawed cattle
that they were "released"i
BY whose orders was It done?
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 each
lumpy-jawed beast means fine OF
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
- 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 It?
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%. 1905:
"a total OF l9s,O02 pounds OF meats
WIS condemned by the department In
GUtttors at the Union Stock Yards