The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-30

that il IVES & common Practice to kill
COWS With calf, and that the butchers
using said slaughter house claimed and
regarded sueh COWS as being good and
wholesome meat They also cleimed
and regarded the hogs which were
fed end fgtteped on the filth and otfal
around said slaughter house az good
and wholesome human food. Which
said committee made its report to the
CITY Council of its aforesaid Investigation,
copy of which said report is hereto at
tached and marked Exhibit B" and made
a part of this answer; that the evidence
taken by said committee had been lost or
destroyed but that q true copy of the sub
stance thereof is hereto attached, marked
Exhibit C." and made part of this
answer.
These defendants further answering aver
shat as an additional and further induce
ment for the construction and erection of
said abattoir, and in consequence OF devel-
opments made in the investigations OF the
said slaughter houses and the general feel
ing and desire of the citizens of said city
that the same should be controlled under
the police regulations aud power of said city
to the end that the health and comfort of
its inhabitants might be maintained and
preserved. All the physicians of said city
then praeticing their profession IN said city
with the object of aiding said city In the
establishment and maintainence of better
sanitary regulations therein, at meeting
held bv them, at which said slaughter
houses and the furnishing of wholesome
10 aitr undpr
held Aug. 8, 1880, passed the following
preamble and resolutions and the attention
of said City Council was called thereto to-
wit:
WHEREAS, Investigation of the slaughter
houses of the city by the Board of Health
has disclosed the fact that proper cleanli-
ness is not maintained in them-ln fact
some, if not all of them, are in such
filthy condition from the presence IN and
about them of decomposing otfal, entralis
and blood of cattle slaughtered as to so
vitiate the air that the meat prepared for sale
must be more or less contaminated by 1t;
and
WHEREAS, 1t has been shown and admit
ted BY many butchers that hogs are kept at
the slaughter houses and fattened on the
offal, CUTS and blood of butchered cattle, in
all stages of decomposition, the putrid mass
generally alive with maggots; that hogs SO
fattened are butchered, exposed for sale.
and sold for meat in the city meat markets;
and
WHEREAS, There are reasonable grounds
for suspicion that diseased cattle and un-
born calves have been butehered and sold
as eatable meats, therefore, be it
Resolved by US, the undersigned physi-
clans residing in the city of Rock Island
that meat exposed to air, rendered poison
Gus by the septic emanatlons from the de-
composing otfal of slaughtered cattle is
highly detrimental to the health of those
who eat it. That the meat of hogs fattened
on any animal matter, and especially that in
state of decomposition is unfit for human
sonsumption, and where used will surely
breed disease. That the meat from dis
eased cattle and immature calves is inedi-
BILE and its exposure for sale crime against
the health of the community.
Resolved, that the efforts of the Board OF
Health to promote reform in the slaugh-
tering of cattle in the city and to prevent
the sale of meat unfit for use, are endorsed
by the medical profession of the city and
should be sustained by all persons wht
wish to promote the health and best inter
ests of the community.
Resolved, That it is highly important Il
the welfare of the city that the City Coun
Gil should provide public abattoir or sucl
other means as may seem best to prevent
continuance of such practices in the slaugh
ter houses as have been made manifest b
the investigations of the Board of Health
CARL BERNHARD, NJ. D.
c. TRUESDALE, NJ. d.
GEO. L. EYsTER, NJ. D.
J. MCKEE, NJ. d.
THos. GAIT, VI. d.
SAMUEL C. PLUMMKR, NJ D.
]. w. CowDEN, NJ. d.
, P. GREGG, NJ. D.
, F. r. WEBB, NJ. D."
These defendants further answering So
said city was further induced to build sa
abattoir or public slaughter house for Il
reason that the Board of Health of sa
city after having carefully examined Il
condition of said slaughter houses and Il
Q necessity for their proper control by sa
: CITY with view to the promotion of Il
( health of the inhabitants thereof made al
f presented to the Mayor and City Council
said city the following towit:
d. Rock ISLAND, ILL.,, Nov. 12, 1885,.
= the Honorable, the Mayor and City Coun
of the city of Rock Island-Gentleme
: The Board of Health of this city respectful
ly beg leave TO make 10 your honofaole DO
0 the following report in regard to the como
: ton of the slaughter houses of this loo
n city:
s In consequence of repeated complaint
n Drs. Barth, Garter and Craig made tour
: inspection. and at meeting held July z
!. 1850, reported that the slaughter hous
IL were in disgustingly filthy condition, Il
it was the custom to feed hogs the bloc
e entrails and all other offal in all stages
" decomposition-a living mass of maggots
10 and it has been reported to them that d
d eased cattle were sometimes killed and I
ID meat sold for food.
In view of such state Of facts,
=. therefore recommend as the best way
- correct this evil that the city establish
IL abattoir and reauirA nv ordinance that