Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-18
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 censured by DR..
Arnold G. Klebs In a lecture on "Con.
sumption and the Home" given In the
Public Library under the auspices of
She Chicago Medical Society.
"Eome day these insanltary condl.
tio0s out at the stock yards will cause
. 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 70 bring
about proper conditions ut the stock
yards"
The Beef Trust will find II hard
- eet resting place when the peo.
pae Of this country rise against 1t.
- they surely will. The people OF the
whole world are crying for It's exter.
0tnation.
~e1NA
Il tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than II was last year e;
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 tiber.
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 carcnses
have the city inspectors condemned tina,
we're found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out!
Where does all the meat that ar
Pives at the Stock Yards at night
come from?
Whose packing house was It that tn
chief meat inspector went into an DE
cember 80 last with orders 10 arres
the President Of the concern for steal
ing cattle that had been tagged ant
condemned?
Did not the President OF this con
~ern surrender 81 condemned cattl
that had been thus stolen and hiddel
away!
How many condemned hogs have bee,
sold as mess pork:
Is II, or Is II not so, that some o
the cattle condemned by city inspeC
tors have been found with their Who'll
insides one mass Of corruption?
Is II not true that the butchers a
the yards are afraid to cut some cattl
>or fear OF contracting contagion them
selves?
Is IL true that many canned cattl
are now killed outside the city and thei
carcases shipped In with tumors an
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 car
not be shipped 10 any point east Q
Chicscoi
Why Is It, and by whose orders Wa
II that after the city inspectors ha
condemned 10 lumpy-Jawed eatu
that they We're released;
BY whose orders was II done?
II there another city besides CHI
cago that will even allow a lumpy
jawed "critter' to enter IL:
Is II not true that in ST. Louis eac
lnmpy'jawed beast means a fine o
$500, and that In Toronto, Canada, tn
beast and even its hide are destroyed
In view OF the fact that the Healtl
Department has officially stated tina
S. per cent OF the meat condemne'
by the city was afflicted with tuber
culosls, why have the city inspector
been ordered TO discontinue the worl
Of condemnlng and destroying II!
Health Department Bulletin, Dec
%. 1906