Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-14
THE PUBLIC HEALTH
A Prominent Chicago Physician, Addressing
the Chicago Medical Society, Arraisns
Stock Yards Conditions.
He Predicts an Upheaval Among
the People Unless Things
Change.

1nsanitary conditions In the stock
yards were severely censured by DR..
Arnold G. Klebs In lecture on "CUn.
sumption and the Home.' given In the
Public Libnry under the auspices Of
the Chicago Medical Society.
''some day these insanitary condi.
t!ons out at the stock yards will cause
a great upheaval In Chicago" lie said.
"Thcy are directly responsible for a
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 ind II hard
y get a resting place when the peo.
pie Of this country rise against 1t.
% they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for Its extcr.
mination.
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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 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
tubecculosis trimmed out?
Where does all the meat that ar.
rives at the Stock Yards at night
come from1
Whose packing house was It 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 q condemned cattle
tnat had been thus stolen and bidder
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 ,nspec.
tors have been found with their whole
insides 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 IL that diseased cattle can.
not be shipped 10 any point east Of
Chicago;
Why 10 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 1t done;
Is there another city besides Chi
cago that will even allow a lumpy-
jawed "critter' 10 enter II?
Is II not true that in 81. Louis each
lumpy-jawed beast means a fine Of
500, and that In Toronto, Canada, the
beast and even It's hide are destroyedI
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 10 discontinue the work
OF condemning and destroying 1t?
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
80, 1905:
"a total OF l9s,OO2 pounds OF meats
was condemned by the department in.
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