Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-11

Tuberculosis IL becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hindrance, when past inspection" .
The school management committee Of
che Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DR.. r. d. Dudley was adopt
ed, which provides that when a teacher
suspects that any child is affected with
the disease It shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools BY the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will he ex.
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
ily physician present at the examina.
tion.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mcnt reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosIs beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public II served.
The statement that there are $4,000
eunsumptives In Chicago was made at
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit.
tee. DIR. Sachs spoke. urging drastic
action by the Board Of Health to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis is a Beef disease.
1t IL not hereditary.
1t II not contracted from impure air.
1t IL contracted by eating bud meat
sold by sordid and consclenceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any OF your relatives have tuber.
eulosis you know who to blame.
The homes saddened by the deaths
Of husbands, wives, fathers, mothers,
brothers. sisters. sons and daughters,
The people poverty stricken BY con.
sumption,
Know who Ii guilty!
There II day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe as well as
America will be too hot to hold them.
The Beef Trust may control govern.
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago spectors-Only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
-was still sufficient to coll attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo.
ber %, 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the Union
Stock Yards condemned "FIvE CAT.
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS,
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT.
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
"1hey also condemned and destroyed
3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City. having
passed government inspection ut those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
Inspection we have.
II few Of the governmental omis.
siOns are rectifed how many thous.
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
Au,arico opo ot this ,nnnnnt I'm ,h.Nri N %
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle? :?
The above report Of the Health Com.
missioner speaks of meat hanging In
the coolers Of trust houses. with tuber.
cular tumOrs trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking OF the 1895, 900 pounds Of
food condemned In 1905 BY Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. C.
]. Whalen, Health Commissioner. says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED on
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan),
American Medicine December 23,
says: 'One stands aghast at the clmi-
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
IN unsuspecting community. 1t is now
In order to 20 step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
obliQulty.
"'It Is well known that cOmbina.
tiOns Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end of rails.
Ing the price Of food stuffs beyond the
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The Outcry has
always been in protest against the In.
creased cost Of living, but here for the
first time are the combinations which
control the food supply, brought into
direct relation to public health.
ut is high time that this matter
he taken out OF the class of minor Of
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIE
LIGHT or PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
Ia war, when all kinds Of brutality nre
sanctioned, 1t Is the height Of dis.