Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-04
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 ccnsured by DR..
Arnold c. Klebs In a 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
. great upheaval In Chicago" he said.
They are directly responsible for a
great deal Of the tuberculosis now
prevalent In Chicago. and firmly
believe that one Of the greatest strides
TINT can be made towards stamping
out this terrible disease Is to bring
about proper conditions at the stock
yards"
The Beef Trust will find II hard
- get resting place when the peo.
PIE Of this country rise against II.
- they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for Its exter.
nination.
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Is tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than II was last yeari
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
ehe city can refuse to continue the In.
spection and condemnation OF tuber.
culosis and canccrous 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
tuberculosis trimmed out!
Where does all the meat that ar.
1ives at the Stock Yards ut night
come fromY
Whose packing house was 1t that the
ehief meat inspector went into an De
cember 80 last with orders to arrest
he President Of the concern for steal
ing cattle that had been tagged and
condemned?
Did not the President Of this con.
sern surrender % condemned cattle
that had been thus stolen and hidden
away;
How many condemned hogs nave been
sold as mess pork!
Is II. or Is II not so that some Of
the cattle condemned by city inspec.
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
Oe fear OF contracting cOntagion them.
selves;
L. II true that many canned cattle
are now killed outside the city and their
carcascs shipped In with tumors and
cancers still attached?
Why do Kansas City and other
points ship their tuberculous, lumpy'
jawed and cancer cattle 10 Chicago:
Why is II that diseased cattle can
not be shipped 70 any point east OF
Chicagoi
Why is II, and by whose orders was
II that after the city inspectors had
condemned 10 lumpy-jawed cattle
that they We're released:
By whose orders was II done?
Is there another city besides Chi,
cago that will even allow lumpy'
Jawed "critter'' 10 enter IL!
Is Il not true that In st. Louis each
lumpy-iawed 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,
culos.s, why have the city inspectors
been ordered to discontinue the work
Of condemnlng and destroying II?
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%, 1905:
"a total OF l0s.0O2 pounds OF meats
was condemned by the department in
Qectors at the Union stock Yards