Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-29
The PUBLIC HEALTH
A Prominent Chicago Physician, Addressing
the Chicago Medical Society, Arraigns
Stock Yards Conditions.
He Predicts an Upheaval Among
the People Unless Things
Change.

and destroyed under their supervision.
At retail markets. 1850 pounds Of
dresrsd meats; 24.15O pounds oc ash.
ana AOS8 pounds Of poultry. Dasns
and rabbits were condemned and de.
stroyed.
"The Commissioner has issued the
following instructions to the chief In.
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
"'While actlnomyc0sis 10 usually
confined to the head, and may be said
in one sense tn b localized disease.
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved. I believe It Ii
safest and most practicable to con.
demn the entire carcass wherever the
actfnOmycotic abscess opens into the
mouth, pharynx, larynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract; or
when the lymphatic glands are involv.
cd; or where there are actinomycotic
tumOrs In the lungs; or when the le-
sions have become generalixed, since
generalization In actin0mycosis ap.
pears to run very atypic course.
making the detection Of all foci Inside
the muscle very difficult; therefore.
the entire carcass 10 to be condemned.
"'ln 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.
denim carcass, and II IL then a 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 Chica0O
Health Department condemned and DE-
stroyed 332,6o7 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 million
pounds OF diseased meat In one month
at the Stock Yards. II 332.887 pounds
Of meat Is condemned and destroyed In
a month by an insufficient number Of
inspectors, how much would be do
stroyed II the Health Department had
the number OF inspectors that 1t should
have?
The health OF Chicago is at stake.
The Beef Trust Ia causing the spread
Of tuberculosis and cancer.
Had. rotten meat that Is sold to the
people by the Beef Trust causes these
awful diseases.
This awful trust can go on spreading
disease. but there Is a day OF reckoning
coming
The people will rise up and demand
that this trust be investigated and the
guilty men sent to Jail.
The Newspaper Trust cannot save the
Beef Trust.
The Eagle was the first paper In the
country to expose the Beef Trust. Now
the good work Is being taken up all
over the United States by daily and
weekly papers and monthly magazines.
The health Of Chicago will always he
In danger so long as diseased meat ID
sold to the people. The Chicago Health
Department Is doing its very best ia
stop this diseased meat, but II has not
near enough men. The Beef Trust ID
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.
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II the Beef Trust thinks that the
people will abide by the fake reports of
investigations made by women's clubs,
college professors and associations COM
posed Of so-caled business men 1t Is
greatly mistaken.
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II the laws regarding the selling OF
diseased meat were enforced the Beof
Trust would now be In jail.