Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-05

The Beef Trust products afflicted with
can be sold without let or
when past inspection"
The school management committee OF
the Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
from attending school. a
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DIR. z. d. Dudley was adopt.
ed, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child is affected with
the disease 1t shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents of the
child are notified the pupil will be ex.
amincd by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
lily physician present at the examine
ton.
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.
culosls beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public Is served.
The statement that there are $4,000
consumptlves In Chicago was made Mt
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds.
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit.
tee. Dr. Sachs spoke, urging drastic
action by the Board Of Health to stamp
out the disease.
tuberculosis Il Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordld and conscienceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tuber'
culosis you know who to blame.
The homes sad,lencd by the deaths
Of husbands. wives, fathers, mothers,
brothers. sisters. sons and daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con.
sumption,
Know who Is guilty!
There Is II day Of reckoning for these
bnrons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe rs 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 inspectors-only II In all
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was still sufficient to call attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of OctO'
Der %, 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the Union
Stock Yards condemned "FlvE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
'"rhey also condemned and destroyed
3.O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection at those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
II a few Of the governmental omls
siOns are rectitied how many thOus
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are at this moment harborlnl
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging II
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber
cular tumOrs trimmed out" ready t
be cut into steaks.
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. G
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say,
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED on
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
Commenting upon this condition
Continues COMMISSIONER Whelan)
American Medicine December %
} says: One stands aghast ut the crlmi
nal cupldity which will induce men t
attempt to sell such dangerous foods t.
, an unsuspectng community. 1t Is nov
} In order to go a step farther ana lin,
out who Is responsible for this mora
Obllqulty.
"'lt Is well known that cOmbinu
tions of the larger meat dealers hav
existed In the past to the end of rails
Ing the price of food stutfs beyond tn
point to which healthy competitlo
would reduce them. The outcry In
. always been in protest against the IL
creased cost Of living, but here for tn
first time are the combinations while
control the food supply, brought into
direct relation to public health.
"'It Is high time that this matte
be taken out of the class OF minor OF
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEN
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
IN war, when all kinds of brutality ar
sanctioned, 1t Is the height OF di,
honor-even murder-to poison til
water supply of n country. Is 1t an
better to poison the food supply?
is time that the public mind shOul
develop conscience In this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosl
read the following from the Health d.