Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

Tuberculosis IL becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afiilcted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hlndrance, 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 DR.. e. d. Dudley was adopt.
ed, which provides that when 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 be ex.
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
ily physician present ut the cxamina.
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 tubcr.
culosls beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public II served.
The statement that there IRE $1,000
cunsumptives 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 II q Beef disease.
It IL not hereditary.
1t II not contracted from impure cir.
1t II contracted by eating bad meat
sold BY sordid 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 saddened by the deaths
Of husbands. wives, fathers, mothers.
brothers, sisters. sons and daughters,
The people poverty stricken BY con.
sumption,
Know who 10 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 al
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-0nly 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 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 y
'"They also condemned and destroyed
3,O93 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 few Of the governmental Omis
slons are rectifed how many thOus
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are at this moment harborine
ne t,rha 1nots Ins
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 Il
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, sayi
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 crimi
nal cupidity which will induce men Il
attempt to sell such dangerous foods t
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to 60 step farther and fint
out who Is responsible for this mora
obliquIty.
"It is well known that cOmbina
tions Of the larger meat dealers hav,
existed In the past to the end of rails
Ing the price OF food stuffs beyond tn,
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry hal
always been In protest against the In
creased cost OF living, but here for tn,
first time are the combinations which
control the food supply, brought into {
direct relation to public health.
"'It IL high time that this matter
be taken out Of the class Of minor of
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Ever
In war, when all kinds OF brutality nrt
sanctioned II Ia the height Of dls