Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-11
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
yaras were severely censured by DR..
Arnold G. Klebs In lecture on "Con.
ompuon and the Home" given In the
Public Library under the auspices Of
- Chicago Medical Society.
''6Ome day these insanitary condi.
oons out at the stock yards will cause
Q sfeat upheaval In Chicago" he mid.
They are directly responsible for a
great deal Of the tuberculosis now
DBevalsnt In Chicago. and firmly
beaieve that one Of the greateet strides
t1,at can be made towards stamping
cut this terrible disease is to bring
about proper conditions at the stock
ysrds."
The Beef Trust will find Il hard
. get a resting place when the peo.
pse Of this country rise against It.
- they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for Its exter.
0ination.
~A
10 tuberculosis any better for the
Deople 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
he city can refuse to continue the In.
spection and condemnation Of tuber.
eul0sis 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
were found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
Where does all the meat that ar.
Sives 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.
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 Is 1t not so, that some Of
the cattle condemned by city inspec-
tors have been found with their whole
insides one mass Of corruption?
Is 1t not true that the butchers at
the yards are afraid to cut some cattle
Nor 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-
5awed 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 1t done?
Is there another city besides Chi
cago that will even allow a lumpy.
3awed "critter'' TO enter II?
Is IL 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.
culosls, why have the city inspectors
been ordered 10 discontinue the work
Of condemn!ng and destroying 1t?
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%. 1905:
"a total OF 1880 pounds OF meats
was condemned by the department in