Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-02
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.

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.
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DR.. T. ID. Dudley was adopt
ed, 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 be ex-
nmincd by medical inspectors OF the
child study department Parents Will
he given permission to have their fam
lily physician present ut the examina-
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.
ers from which the public IL served.
The statement that there are $4,000
consumptives In Chicago was made mt
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 Is a Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid ana conscicnceless 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 saddencd by the deaths
Of husbands. wives. fathers. mothers,
brothers, sisters. sons ana daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con-
sumption,
Know who Is guilty!
There II a day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe Us well as
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 al
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention t.
horrible facts.
Tho following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
ber 2S, 1905, speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors at the Unlor
Stock Yards condemned "FlvE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART or THE EVIDENCE
! or TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
; ''Ihey also condemned and destroyed
: 3,O03 pounds of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis md Kansas City, havln;
passed government inspection ut thos'
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
; II Il few Of the governmental omls
sions are rcctified how many thous
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe ant
America are at this moment harborinl
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 tuber
: cular tumors trimmed out" ready t
be cut into steaks.
Speaking of the $685., GOO pounds O
food condemned In 1905 by Chicag'
Health Department inspectors, DR.. c
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED o.
! ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Commenting upon this condition
| CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine December %
g says: 'One stands aghast ut the criml
/. nal cupldity which will induce men t
attempt to sell such dangerous foods t
q an unsuspecting community. 1t Is nov
Q in order to go II step farther and fin
out who is responsible FOR this mora
/. Obliquity.
at 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 til
point to which healthy competition
: would reduce them. The outcry la
. always been In protest against the IN
creased cost Of living, but here for tn
first time are the combinations whic
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
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
/ SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
in war, when all kinds OF brutality ar
sanctioned, it is the height of dis
honor-eycn murder-to poison til
water supply OF country. Is 1t an
better to poison the food supply? /
Is time that the public mind shoul
develop conscience In this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosi
read the following from the Health DC
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1908