Public Health Warns on Stock Yards Tuberculosis Risk
Dr. Arnold C. Klebs condemns insanitary stock yards in a Public Library lecture, blaming conditions for Chicago TB. He cites Health Department reports condemning hundreds of thousands of pounds of diseased meat and attacks the Beef Trust for obstructing inspections and public health safeguards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnold C. Klebs
Chicago Medical Society
Chicago
Chicago Health Department
Health Department
Beef Trust
Newspaper Trust
The
Eagle
United States
Union
Atocity
Tuberculous Beef Under Scrutiny by Chicago Eagle
The Chicago Eagle denounces the Beef Trust and government inspection failures. A report by Superintendent Cooley and Dr. B D Dudley outlines school actions for tuberculous children. Health bulletins cite thousands of pounds condemned for tuberculosis and other diseases, accusing meat combines of endangering public health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beef Trust
Board of Education
Cooley
B.D. Dudley
Health Department
Chicago
Visiting Nurse Association
Arthur Aldis
Sachs
Board of Health
Trust
Chicago Eagle
Europe
America
City of
Chicago Health Department
Union Stock Yards
St. Louis
Kansas City
C. J. Whalen
Whelan
Beef Trust Horrors: The case against private slaughterhouses
A scalding critique argues that private slaughterhouses spread cancer and infections through diseased beef. Citing the Lancet and local hospital data, it demands state controlled slaughterhouses, public inspection, and elimination of private profit in meat production to protect public health and curb the beef trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ed
Ward Russell
Cal
London Lancet
Medical Journal of
Europe
Chicago
Cincinnati Hospital
Jamestown
N. Y
Beef Trust
Roosevelt Hospital
New
York
Pennsylvania Hospital
United States
Reet Trust
England
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the Public Health
Beet Trust
Toronto
Canada
Illinois
Tuberculosis
Commissioner of Health
Reet ‘Trust
New York
Chicago Newspaper Trust
Fagle
Beef ‘Trust
Chicago Trust
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