Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-11-24

Tuberculosis is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hindrance, when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
the Board of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DIR. Il. d. Dudley was adopt
ed, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child is affected with
the disease 1t shall he made known
to the superintendent of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will he ex.
amincd by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission TO have their fam.
lily physician present ut the examine.
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber-
culosls 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.
crs from which the public IL served.
The statement that there nrc $4,000
cUnsumptives In Chicago was made ut
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit.
tnx. cnnI.ss s,s.svts.ss 81 Ia
action by the Bonrd Of Health to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis Is Beef disease.
1t Ia not hereditary.
1t is not contracted from Impure air.
1t II contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid and consclencelcss men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tuber.
cul0sls you know who to blame.
Tho homes saddencd by the deaths
Of husbands, wives, fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters. sons and daughters,
The people poverty stricken BY con.
sumption.
Know who Ia guilty!
There IL day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe rs well US
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
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin OF Octo-
ber %, 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors Mt the Union
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT.
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS.
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
or TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT.
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
"Thcy also condemned and destroyed
3,Oo3 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis ana Kansas City, having
passed government inspection at those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
Inspection we have.
II a few Of the governmental omis.
sions are rectliled how many thOus.
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are Mt this moment harbOring
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 3,035,OOO pounds OF
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. c.
]. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
Commenting upon this condition
Continues Commissioner Whelan),
American Medicine December %,
says: 'One stands aghast at the criml.
nal cupldity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to go step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
obllqulty.
"'lt Is well known that combIna.
tlons 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
Est time are the combinations which
roN'rol the food supply, brought into q
direct relation to public health.
ut Is high time that thl., IL utter
no taken out OF the class OF minO, Of
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
light OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
z war. when all kinds Of brutality are
snctloned, It 10 the height OF dis