Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-14
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of L,
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
cu1Osis Trimmed Out.

Tuberculosis 10 becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afiilcted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hindrance, when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
We Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and Dr. Il. d. Dudley was adopt.
I'd, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
tire disease It shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child nre notified the pupil will be ex.
amined by medical. inspectors OF the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
lily physician present ut the examina.
tion.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can nee from the Health Depart.
mcnt reports that Stnte and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosis beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public In served.
The statement that there arc $1,000
consumptives In Chicago was made ut
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 Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
It 10 not contracted from impure air.
It 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 II guilty!
There In q day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe ns well a.
America will be too hot to hold them.
The Reef Trust may control govern.
ment inspection.
But the insignlncant number Of city.
Of Chicago nspectOrs--Only II In oil
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 ny
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
"They also condemned and destroyed
8,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
St Louis ana Kansas City. having
paused government inspection ut those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
IL a few OF the governmental omis.
siOns are rectified how many thOus-
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are ut 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
he cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 1896 900 pounds OF
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, Dr. G.
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner. says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WE'RE 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 to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. 1t IL now
In order to go step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
Obliqu,ty.
"'It Is we'll known that combina.
tiOns 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
first time are the combinations which
control the food supply, brought into
direct relation to public health.
"It Is high time that this matter
be taken out Of the class of minor OF.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
IN war, when all kinds OF brutality arc
aancfiOned n In tho haipht NJ flo