Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-09-13

'war on the Jews continues to be
the slogan Of the city administration.
Last week 1t came in resounding
note from the City Health Department;
this week 1t Is carried again on the
breezes' wing from the same source.
"rhe Jews are unclean, their homes
must be burned down." and they must
be sent adrift as homeless wanderers
on the face Of the earth.
This, briefly put, is the policy OF the
present City Health Department.
No more awful ukase than this was
ever issued by any Czar Of Russia. It
carries with 1t all the dreadful import
Of ukase because In Chicago the
power OF the city administration Is as
supreme in municipal affairs as that of
any king who ever ruled realm.
Last week the Harrison Health De.
partment breathed n sigh Of regret be-
cause 1t was unable to sprinkle the
homes OF the Hebrews of the Ghetto
with Kerosene and then turn Mrs.
O'Leary's COW" loose to do business
with them In the old historic way.
This week we find the following an
nouncement in the weekly Health De.
partment bulletin:
THE fact that typhoid fever Is most
prevalent In the Ghetto district, which
has relatively pure water supply, has
led many to believe that water Is moi
responsible for the present epidemic
This IL false conclusion. The people
Of the Ghetto live among insanitary
conditions. Their drainage IL bad
their sewerage is insufficient, their
food is not Of good quality. Their vi
tality il lowered by their mode OF life
and they are more liable to typhoid
fever, as well as other diseases, than
people who live upon a cleaner and bet
ter social level.
"ChlcagO's one remedy lies In shut
ting of all sewage from the lake and
In increasing the capacity and flow Of
the drainage canal. All the sewage OF
the city north Of Fullerton avenue and
south Of 35th street now pours into the
lake to pOllute the city's drinking sup.
ply with filth and disease
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II the department will explain to
The Eagle how it figures 1t out that
typhoid fever Is due to a polluted water
supply and at the same time that ty.
phoid is more epidemic among the
Jews OF the Ghetto than in any other
district Of Chicago, this journal will
admit that the Il. L. knows what it Is
talking about.
Does the Health Department mean
to intimate the water supply of the
Ghetto In different in quality from tina,
of the rest OF Chicago;
Is 1t the Intention Of the Health De
partment to demonstrate that there l,
one quality Of water supplied by tn,
city Of Chicago to the Ghetto and an
other to the people Of other districts o
the city?
In order to be consistent, the Healtl
Department will have to argue alOn,
this line because that institution ha
been persistently declaiming agains
the water supply for years, and has en-
deavOred with all its powers of In
genuity to demonstrate that the caus
Of every epidemic Is the polluted waite
supply.
III IL Is "because of their habits o
life" that the Jews of the Ghetto are at
filcted with typhoid fever more thar
any other portion of the community
why IL 1t that Chlcago's Health De
partment have SO st0utly maintaine
that al the trouble is with the water
These questions can only be answere
In Il plain acknowledgment of the ev,
dent fact that the Harrison administra
tlon has decided to make the Jews o
the Ghetto the scapegoat for condition
which are the result of neglect by til
city Of dts own duties.
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''As parents are compelled by law t
send their children 10 school, ii Is tn
duty OF the Board Of Education to pro
vide pure water for the children" SAT-
a Health Department bulletin a fey
days ago
This quotation Is from one Of our dali,
contemporaries and speaks for itself.
IL Is In direct contrayentiOn OF tn
facts OF tho SittIatlnn