BLOOD-DRINKING IN CHICAGO.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2192, 12 January 1886, Page 2

BLOOD-DRINKING IN CHICAGO.

.At moat of'the smaller packing-housee at the yards, each morning, long before breakfast, and sometimes as early as five o'clock, carriages draw, up near th» slaughter-lioußea, ; ladies and gentlomen alight and enter. .Then the coachmen:' have a long wait. . Equipages come and' go until about 7 o'clock. Then theyjl-: iisappear. During the two hours whuV the blood-drinker* are coming and going; there aro moro wan faces and • more jjhi; ciated'figures about the paoking-hjß* district than during all the day. They aw tho poor mortals whose vitals have bee* atteoked by disease, and who belioTe thai by drinking the warm blood of fleshly killed animals they, cap save! or prolong life. They are not fierce people of the f«, fi, fo, furasort, but pitiful objects,.with ' sweet-faced womenwdkindlyandinfcflUi-gent-looking inen.. ' Ladii'3 and the rich," said a man witk a very clean and white apron, who attend!' to the butchering.of the animals for thji accommodation of thesei invalids,-go: to almost any expense to, do away with*; soent whioh is,.of course, at its bask naußoatinsr to the sick ones. I har» often, when well" paid, taken a young lamb and had it? fleece carefully washed; before slaughter to jdoaso these people.' Wheuthe invalid is ready, I shave thr nook and the throat over the jugular vein, then a surgeon's'tube is inserted so that the blood flows rapidly, without sir' entering the voiu. As boou as the goblei is full it is hurried to the sick person anil hastily drunk off. ' Make them siok ? Oh,' said the mat with the white apron, 'it is not pleasant. at first, but after a while they drink it of ■ without effort, if they do not get up ate appetite for it Rich patients uaual!» pay the price of the lamb when we go W this trouble. We havo the carcass, the, hide, and everything for our pains, Thi poorer people drink bullock's' blood, and bring their own glasses.'