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Newspaper
Chicago Eagle
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1906
Page
2
Dr. Arnold C. Klebs denounces insanitary stockyard conditions as a major TB source in Chicago in a Public Library lecture. The piece links meat inspection lapses, condemned cattle, and alleged trust influence to rising disease and food prices, predicting a forthcoming legislative probe into the Beef Trust.
A Chicago health expose denounces the beef trust and government inspection lapses as tuberculous meat enters markets. It cites Health Department bulletins from 1905 showing widespread condemnation for tuberculosis in beef, calls for action, and blames packers and inspectors for risking public health.
A historical critique argues to condemn entire carcasses when actinomycotic and cancer risks appear in cattle. It denounces private slaughtering as unsanitary and calls for state controlled facilities, strict inspections, and public health controls to prevent diseased meat reaching the public.
Article notes 1101 cancer deaths in Chicago in 1905, 67 more than 1906, an increase of 2.03 percent per 10 000. It compares 1905 mortality to the decade averages ending 1904 and 1884, showing a 10.1 percent and 34.1 percent rise respectively.
A controversial attack accuses the Beef Trust of thwarting a secretary of agriculture plan to hire 135 meat inspectors for European imports. It claims only 20,000 dollars were appropriated, leaving Europeans safer than Americans and criticizes the trust for influencing Congress. It also accuses the Leet Trust of funding agitation to force imports.
The question asks how many billions of pounds of cancer and tuberculosis were fed to the people during years with no city inspection, given destruction of over $1,000,000 pounds of cane cerons and tuberculous meat by eleven inspectors in five months. It implies a calculation linking destroyed stock to total fed amounts across uninspected years, but provides no concrete numbers for the uninspected period or the scale of feeding, so a precise figure cannot be determined from the given data.
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