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Newspaper
Chicago Eagle
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1906
Page
2
Dr Arnold Klebs denounces insanitary stock yards in a Chicago Library talk, linking filth to tuberculosis and calling for stronger meat inspections. The piece questions why condemned tuberculous cattle persist, cites Health Department reports, and reports on actinomycotics and condemnation rules at the Union Stock Yards.
The Chicago Health Department inspectors condemn and destroy hundreds of thousands of pounds of meat at the Stock Yards. With far too few inspectors, nearly half a million pounds were destroyed in four months. the health of Chicago is at stake as calls grow to investigate the Beef Trust and halt its public health menace.
A fragment argues the Beef Trust would face jail if laws on selling diseased meat were enforced, criticizing fake investigative reports by women’s clubs professors and associations and implying broad noncompliance by business leaders.
A crusading editor denounces the Beef Trust for selling tuberculosis tainted meat and calls for state ownership of slaughterhouses. It cites health bulletins, inspector failures, and dramatic condemnations at Union Stock Yards, urging drastic action to protect public health and end private slaughter.
A Chicago Health Department report marks a shift in deaths from predominantly infants to adults. It notes the average age at death rose from infancy in 1875 to about 81 years by 1906, attributed to changes linked to the Beef Trust.
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