Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-01
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 censurei bg DR..
Arnold c. Klebs In a lecture on "Con.
sumption and the Home" given In the
Public Library under the auspices Of
~ Chicago Medical Society.
"6ome day these insanitary condi.
s,o0s out at the stock yards will cause
Q great upheavai In Chicago" he said.
They are directly responsible for
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
0ut this terrible disease Ia 70 bring
about proper conditions at the stock
yards"
Tia Beef Trust will hnd Il hard
= get resting place when the pso.
~ Of this country rise against Il.
- they surely will. The people Of the
whole world ore crying for its extsr.
0lnation.
10 tuberculosis any better for the
Oeople this year than II was last yeari
In another column will be found q.
tracts from the Health Department an.
nual report and weekly bulletins. Do
you think that In the face Of these doc.
aments and the facts they contain that
ths city can refuse to continue the In.
OpectiOn 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 cnrcases
have the city inspectors condemned that
were found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
Where does oil the meat that ar.
Pives at the Stock Yards at night
come fromf
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 % 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 II not true that the butchers at
the yards are afraid to cut some cattle
or fear OF contracting contagion them.
selves?
Is 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 1t that diseased cattle can.
not be shipped TO any point east of
Chicago;
Why is II, and by whose orders was
II that after the city inspectors had
condemned 10 lumpy.jawed cattle
that they were "released"i
BY whose orders was IL done?
Is there another city besides Chi
cago that will even allow lumpy.
Jswed "critter' to enter II?
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
S 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 it?
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
% 1906:
"a total OF 19s,002 pounds OF meats
was condemned by the department In
GxeCtUrs at the Union Stock Yards