Beef Trust Plague Stirs Health Officials in Chicago
A Chicago Medical Society lecture condemns insanitary stock yards conditions as tuberculous beef circulates. Advocates demand continued inspection and condemnation of diseased cattle while accusing the Beef Trust of manipulating meat prices and imports to boost its power and profits.
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Chicago Medical Society
Arnold C. Klebs
Health Department
Stork
Kansas City
St. Louis
Toronto
Canada
Beef Trust
Congress
Associated Press
Union
Union Stock Yards
Commissioner of Health
Ee Health Department
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Department
Tuberculosis Beef War Warns Public Health Reform
The Chicago Eagle urges action against a beef trust amid reports of tuberculosis contaminated meat reaching consumers. Health officials cite inspections, condemnations, and calls for accountability, linking ill meat to public health harm and demanding stronger enforcement.
Beef Trust Horrors and Cancer Fear Move to Public Slaughtering
A London linked orator argues that actinomycotic cattle illness and cancer taint meat and demand state control. He cites lumpy jaw claims, tuberculosis risks, and rising Chicago cancer deaths to press for public slaughterhouses and strict inspection over private slaughtering.
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Tomes
England
Beef Trust blocks meat inspector funding for Chicago
The Beef Trust used covert methods to defeat an effort by the secretary of agriculture to add 135 inspectors for Chicago. He sought 125000 dollars for 185 inspectors to check European meat imports while US meat escaped. Congress only granted 20000, highlighting perceived bias and influence by the Beef Trust.
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The
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Beef Trust
Secretary of Agriculture
Chicago
Europe
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