Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-12
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of Il.
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.
And Also Says that It Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

uuu W0lIc SOUe lnSpeCtOTS COuueliiH
only the part involved, I believe 1t Is
safest and most practicable to con-
dcmn the eptire carcass wherever the
actinomycotic abscess opens into the
mouth, pharynx, larynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract; or
when the lymphatlc glands are invOlv-
ed; or where there are actinOmycOtic
tumors in the lungs: or when the lc.
sions have become generalized, since
generalization in actlnomycosis ap.
pears to run very atypic course,
making the detection of all foci inside
the muscle very difficult; therefore,
the entire carcass Is to be condemned.
"'1n cases where the actinOmycotic
LESSONS are positively localized, the in.
fected part may be cut away and the
remains Of the carcass used.
"'rhese instructions apply only to
"lumpy jaw" There may be other
reasons why you should want to con.
demn n carcass, and II is then a mat.
ter Of judgment for you and your men.
But YOU should never hesitate to con.
demn II you believe the animal to be
not fit for human food"
The most amazing stupidity concciv.
able Of any people with foreheads is
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In powerful article
written by him in the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how n care.
less community might tolerate mo-
nopoly Of some things, how 1t might
endure to have its transportation, fol
instance, or Its electric light, control
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps; but that It should tolerate d
monopoly Of the primal necessity OF
food Is beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked saw
agcs have uniformly been too wise
for that. and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such q monstrous
condition Ii our own.
From a thousand illustrations Of tn,
injuries we oil suffer from this idlotit
arrangement let US cite one.
There II no way of communicating
disease to the human body surer thar
through infected meat tissue. Som,
Of the worst and most destructive ba
cilli that prey upon mankind are com
mon among the animals he eats To-
food. Cows have tuberculosis ant
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. 1t Is SO com
mon among cows that the wise ant
tho forewarned will use none but ster
ilized milk. What Is hog cholera
among swine Is merely typhoid feve
In men. TrIchlnca In hogs poison
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than all these, and NOR,
deadly, is another fact that Is seldom
commented upon because 1t is too ap
palling to dwell much upon. What 4
called "lumpy Jaw" In cattle is slmpi!
cancer. Tho germs Of cancer ar
communicable. Many cattle hav'
"lumpy jaw" Any animal witt
"lumpy jaw" Is unit for humal
food.
This opens a field TINT demands tn
immediate attention Of the govern
ment. Cancer IL the most terrible 0
all diseases. After 1t has reached
certain stage Of development 1t 10 ab
solutely incurable. Its progress +
that stage may DO without the pa
TENTS knowledge or suspicion. 1t
advance beyond that stage canno
even be checked. 1t Stays Its victim
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increas
Of this most terrible of human nj
fictions has been something to alaru
us all. 1t was once rare; 1t nov
threatens to become common. In tn
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1876
u, the number Of cancerOus patient
was one In 6s7. In 1904 the numbe
was one In 273. In 1870. when tn
total population of the city was 2l0
23O, the number Of cancer cases n
ported Mt all the institutions was 4!
In 1900, with total population O
325, 1909, the number of cancer case
reported at all the institutions wa
l0S, and In 1908, with about the sam
population, the number was 267.
append the table that shows this a,
tonishing increase.
Here Is similar report from tw
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEV
YORK.
Total No.
Year. Of patients. Canoe
1878. .l,Ooo
1870. O........... .1,Ol7
1850. .1,414
1851. lOO
| 1000