Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-01

and destroyed under their supervision.
At retail markets. 1850 pounds Of
dreSed meats; 24.15O pounds q esh,
ana N0s6 pounds Of poultry, hams
and rabbits were condemned and de-
stroyed.
"The Commissioner has issued the
following instructions to the chief In.
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
awhile actinomycosis 10 usually
confined to the head, and may b said
In one sense to b Q localtse1 diseass.
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved. believe It n
safest and most practicable to con.
demn the entire carcass wherever the
actinomycotic abscess opens into the
mouth. pharynx. larynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract; or
when the Emphatic glands are involv.
ed; or where there are actinomycotic
tumors In the lungs; or when the 70.
sions have become generalixed. since
generalization In actinomycosis ap.
pears to run Q very atypic course.
making the detection OF all foci inside
the muscle very difncult; therefore.
the entire carcass 10 to be condemned.
"'ln cases where the actinomyc ycotic
LESSONS are positively localIssd, the In.
fected part may be cut away and the
remains Of the carcass ussd.
"These instructions apply only to
''lumpy jaw" There may BE- other
reasons why you should want to con.
demn q carcass, and II 10 then q mat.
ter Of judgment for you and your men
But you should never hesitate to con.
denim II you believe the animal to BE-
not at for human food"
The meat inspectors OF the Chicago
Health Department condemned and de.
stroyed 332. 1887 pounds Of meat at the
Stock Yards during the month Of April.
Just think this over.
With not tenth as many inspectors
as they should have the Health Depart
ment destroys nearly half a million
pounds Of diseased meat In one month
ut the Stock Yards. II 332.607 pounds
of meat Is condemned ana destroyed In
month by an insufficient number OF
inspectors, how much would be de-
stroyed II the Health Department had
the number Of inspectors that 1t should
haveI
The health OF Chicago Is at stake.
The Beef Trust IL causing the spread
OF tuberculosis and cancer.
Bad, rotten meat that Is sold to tile
people by the Beef Trust causes these
awful diseases.
This awful trust can go on spreading
disease, but there u day Of reckoning
coming.
The people will rise up aud demand
that this trust be investigated and tht
guilty men sent to Jail.
The Newspaper Trust cannot save tin
Beef Trust.
The Eagle was the first paper In thu
country to expose the Beef Trust. Now
the good work IL being taken up nj
over the United States by daily and
weekly papers and monthly magazines
The health OF Chicago will always bt
In danger so long as diseased meat Il
sold to the people. The Chicago Healti
Department Is doing Its very hest tt
stop this diseased meat, hut II has moi
near enough men. The Beef Trust II
the greatest menace to the public
health that We have.
1t should be stopped.
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The Beef Trust laughs at pure food
laws.
II the Beef Trust thinks that thu
people will abide by the fake reports OF
investigations made by wOmen's clubs
college professors and associations com
posed of so-called business men 1t i'
greatly mistaken.
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IL the laws regarding the selling OF
diseased meat were enforced the Beef
Trust would now be In jail.