Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-21
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.

fnsanitary conditions in the stock
yards were severely censured by DR..
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 condi.
lions out at the stock yards will cause
a 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 Is 10 bring
about proper conditions ut the stock
yards"
The Beef Trust will find II hard
- 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 It's exter.
Dination.
%eEA
II tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than 1t was last year;
In another column will be found ex.
tracts from the Health Department an.
nuai report aud 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.
epection and condemnation OF tuber.
csiiosls 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 from3
Whose packing house was II 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 % condemned cattle
that had been thus stolen and hidden
away;
How many condemned hogs have been
sold as mess pork;
Is IL, or Is IL not so, that some OF
the cattle condemned by city inspec.
tors have been found with their whole
insldes one mass Of corruptlonf
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 othe'
points ship their tuberculous, lumpy
jawed and cancer cattle TO Chicago?
Why is II that diseased cattle can
not be shipped TO any point east OF
Chicago;
Why IL II, and by whose orders was
IL that after the city inspectors had
Nohatii.i'N l'o IuHIHs -JdNtu tdltIt
that they We're "released"I
by whose orders was 1t done?
Is there another city besides Chi
cago that will even allow a lumpy
Jawed "critter'' to enter It?
Is IL not true that Ia ST. Louis each
lumpy-j jawed beast means a 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
50 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 l9s,0O2 pounds Of meats
was condemned by the department In