Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-03
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All 1t 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 DIR. +. u. Dudley was adopt
ed, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child is affected with
the disease 1t shall he made known
to the superintendent of schools by the
principal. After the parents of the
child are notified the pupil will he eX-
nmined by medical inspectors of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam
lily 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 State and govern
ment inspection does not prevent tuber-
culosis beef from getting into the cool
ers from which the public Is served.
The statement that there are $4,000
consumptives In Chicago was made ut
the annual meeting of the Visiting
Nurse Association by NJ. Arthur Adds.
chairman of the tuberculosis commit
tee. Dr. Sachs spoke. urging drastic
action 10y the Board of Health to stamp
out the disease.
tuberculosis is Il Beef disease.
1t IL not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold By sordid and constituencies 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 ana daughters.
The people poverty stricken by con
sumption,
Know who IL guilty.
There Is 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 ~
America will he too hot tn hold them
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of cit!
Of Chicago inspcctors-only II In al
although now strangely discontinue
was still sufficient to call attention t
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicag
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
Der oS, 1905. speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors Mt the Cnlo
Stock Yards condemned FIVE Cal
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH \ PART OF THE EvIDENCI
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OU1
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED y
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
'They also condemned and destroye
3.O93 pounds Of cut meats shipped fro'
st. Louis and Kansas city, havin
passed government inspection NJ tho'
places"
This shows the sort Of governmel
Inspection we have.
II few Of the governmental omi
slons are rectifed how many thou
ands are not?
How many homes in Europe M
America are at this moment harborir
% t,,I Al
The above report Of the Health Cor
missioner speaks Of meat hanging
the coolers Of trust houses, with tube
c,,lar tumors trimmed out" ready
he cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3,935,OO0 pounds
food condemned In 1905 by Chlca;
Health Department inspectors, DIR.
]. Whalcn, Health Commissioner, sa,
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED q
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
commenting upon this condltl'
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan
American Medicine December .
says: 'One stands aghast at the GRIN
nal cupldity which will induce men
attempt 10 sell such dangerous foods
an unsuspecting community. II Is no
in order TO 90 a step farther ana I'll
out who Is responsible for this NOR
obllquity.
"'It Is well known that cOmbiN
tions Of the larger meat dealers In
existed in the past 10 the end Of ra
ing the price Of food stuffs beyond l
point 10 which healthy cCmpctlu
would reduce them. The outcry h
always been in protest against the
creased cost OF living, but here for I
first time are the combinations viii
control the food supply, brought into
direct relation 10 public health,
".It Is high time that this matt
lie taken out Of the class Of minor
fenscs AND THE DEALERS THE
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN ri
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Ev
in war, when all kinds Of brutality q
sanctioned, it Is the height Of d
hOnor-eyen murder-to poison I
water supply Of country. Is it a
better to poison the food supply
is time that the public mind shOr
develop conscience In this direction.