Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-22

Tuberculosis is becoming epidemic.
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 Dr. Il. d. Dudley was adopt
ei, 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 he ex-
amined by medical inspectors OF the
child study department. Parents will
lie 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 Suite and govern
n,ent inspection does not prevent tuber-
culosis beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public In served.
The statement that there are 10000
eunsumptives In Chicago was made at
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 Reef disease.
1t is not hereditary.
1t IL not contracted from impure air.
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 u your relatives have tuber'
euloSis you know who to blame.
The homes saddcncd by the deaths
Of husbands, wives, fathers, mOthess
brothers. sisters. sons and daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con
sumption,
Know who In guilty!
There IL q day Of reckoning for thes'
barons Of blood and tyrants Of thu
Trust
The Chicago Eagle will keep upoI
their track until Europe as well III
America will be too hot to hold then,
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
| hA tua A,o mo ,l.Aa <Se <,tN y
Of Chicago inspectors--Only II In al
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention +
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicag'
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
ber 2S, 1905. speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors ut the UnioI
Stock Yards condemned ''FlvE CAT
TILE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
or TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED Bl
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"rhey also condemned and destroyer
3.O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped frOn
st. Louis and Kansas CITY, havin
passed government inspection at tios
places"
This shows the sort Of governmsn
inspection we have.
II a few Of the governmental Omis
sions are rectided how many thOus
antis are not?
How many homes In Europe AM
America are mt this moment harborin
cuts Of meat from Tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging IL
the coolers Of trust houses, with tubev
cular tumOrs trimmed out" ready I,
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3,935,00O pounds O
food condemned In 1905 by Chicag
Health Department inspectors, DR..
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
in his annual report.
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED OF
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 t
attempt to sell such dangerous foods t.
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is nov
In order TO go Il step farther and fin'
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 Dutcry ha
always been in protest against the in
creased cost Of living, but here for tn
first time are the combinations whicl
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
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Ever
im war, when all kinds Of brutality ar,
sanetloned, Il 10 tho helalt Of dio