Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-15
NO LUMP JAW FOR us
Inspector McCutcheOn Watch
ing Chicago Cattle.
DISEASED MEAT KEPT OUT.
DR.. hcChesney Condemns Windy City
Stock as Not Fit to Eat.
MP MsnTTnUE0N Tc cUCTETNEn
DISEASED MEAT KEPT OUT.
MR.. M'CUTCHEON is SUSTAINED.

NAa u w 1OuEON 10 pUDldlNEUs
George McCutcheon, Meat and Milk In
spector, has been for some time in receipt of
congratulatory letters on his clearing the
markets of Pittsburg of diseased meat. His
war upon the ''lump-jaw" cattle sent here
from Chicago is regarded as the best move
In the Public Health Bureau made since
the new charter went into existence. Some
$1,000 head of cattle have been inspected
within two days, and only one case of lump
jaw was discovered, showing that the deter
mined stand taken by Inspector McCutcheon
last year was productive of the best results.
With regard to the milk question, he has
made within three weeks 277 tests, and only
found eight that did not come up to the re-
quirements of the lactometer and the pub
lie. This he accounts for by the stand he
took against skinned milk and watered
COW juice about year ago, when he brought
suit against some of the leading dairymen of
the county. Inspector McCutcheon still says
that Just as good milk can be
obtained in the city from COWS
which are stall-fed as from the so-called
creamery farms, the owners of which are
too anxious to churn their cream into golden |
butter. The cows which get exercise and
are sent out during the grazing season for |
fresh fodder gives much better milk, he |
says, for infants or invalids, than the So |
called country cows, whose product IS agi- |
tated BY long railroad trips and made unfit |
to administer to weak stomachs.
KEPT HIM POSTED.
Inspector McCutcheon, who started the |
first fight against the lump-iawed cattle snd |
the diseased meat generally shipped from |
Chicago to other cities, disguised in tin |
overcOats as eorned beef, or in sealSkin |
wrappers as sauSsges Of every class, has been
kept posted pretty thoroughly by the Chi /
cago people on the status of the cattle trade /
in the city that wants the Worlds Fair. |
The Inspector shows the state of affairs as at !
present existing in Chicago, and the debates
that occur in the city at the foot of Lake
Michigan, on the very evil which was over
thrown by his fight against lump-iawed
cattle for food although opposed bY home
butchers who used the Chicago dressed meat,
and by the capital of the producers of the
dressed meat.
Some extracts are given from letter ad-
dressed by H. c. McChesney, Of the Illi-
nois State Board of Live Stock Commission
ers, 70 Dr.. Wickersham, Health Commits
sioner of Chicago, and consequently all
Cook county, which will give an idea of
how the diseased meat question still rankles
after Pittsburg stirred it up:
Doctor, yeu will excuse me if I comment Just
8 little bit on portions of your interview pub
lished in the press of December 81 regarding
diseased meat put on or attempted to be placed |
for sale on the market by the State Board of |
Live Stock Commissioners; also upon the man
ner in which you and the inspectors under your
charge have discharged the responsible duties |
of your office, but more particularly your trusty
chief Matt Lamb. Your declaration that none |
but healthy meat should be sold for cOnSump-
tion, even if you have to call on the police
force shows the fact that you feel as you ought
TO for the safety of the public and the warmth
with which you express yourself, eliminating !
the theatrical part, the saving of the air with
your arms and pounding your right fist into the
palm of your left hand carries conviction to the
minds of all that no slaughterer will deal in |
other than healthy cattle.
LAMB IN CHARGE.
You say that upon receipt of the first rumor
that diseased cattle were being sent in you
sent Lamb to the yards and put him in charge.
In charge of what doctor? You should be
more specific so people will understand you
You say that half dozen attempts have been
made to remove him; and Immediately after
the failure of such attempts lumpy-jawed cat
tie were received there. Received where? doc
tor The cattle you complain of we're un-
loaded at the slaughter house on Sunday morn
ings and were Immediately slaughtered |
Where was your trusty man, Matt Lamb? He
knows that many cattle are slaughtered on the |
Sabbath. Why did he neglect his duty? Doc
tor, it was because Of the failure of the health |
department of the city of Chicago to properly |
Stock Commissioners was forced to order the
State veterinarian and his assistants to visit all
cattle sheds in the State and place In
quarantine all cattle affected with actinomy-
kosis.
believe you to be thoroughly honestm man,
desirous of dlscharging your full duty to the |
people, and regret exceedingly to find you
placed In this awkward position by your truSty |
man Lamb. If it is true that the principal is |
for the acts of his agents 1 find you |
will have to have the carcasses of go cattle, af- |
fected with one of the most dangerous bovine |
diseases communicable to mankind placed on |
the market TO be sold for human food. That |
man having l6 years experience in the inspec- |
ton of cattle at slaughter houses should out of |
lO9 diseased cattle pass go as healthy can onIy
be accounted for on the ground that he is a
or afooL
A ROAST ON LAMB.
Months since, for good and sufficient reasons. |
the State Board ordered the stock yards COM
pany to pass no lumpy-jawed cattle out of the |
yards on the certificate of Matt Lamb, and re-
cent acts make it necessary to include In the
order all employees OF the health department |
at the stock yards. During the many
years your trusty man, Matt Lamb. has served |
rs Heath Inspector at the slaughtering estab- !
ishments in this city, thousands of cattle
Affected with that dread disease have been
driven from the stock yards, slaughtered and
their carcasses sold on the market for human .
food. Neither you, the public, nor will ever
know how many people found untimely graves
by eating that diseased meat. but we can know |
how many carcasses were condemned by an ex-
animation Of Lambs reports, now on file in
your office. and the public has right to de-
nand of you that information.
This was the state of affairs discovered by ;;
Inspector McCutcheon when he visited the
Chicago stock yards, and which is to-day as {
bad as it was then, with the exception that !
no shipments are made to Pittsburg of dis :
eased meat. The Inspector says that when !
doctors differ, no common, ordinary cowboy :
ought to interfere, especially as they prove !
him to be in the right, and to keep Pitts
burg markets clear of diseased food.
Inspector Lamb referred to above, is the
citizen who came on to PiTtsburg at the
time Inspector McCutcheon made his fam
BUS fight against Chicago dressed meat. At
that time he declared no lump-jswed cattle
we're shipped from that city. ,