Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-25

Tuberculosis is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
tindrance. when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
the Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DIR. r. 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 he ex.
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
ily physician present ut the exnmina.
tion.
The poor children who got the tuber-
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
ment 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 arc 1900
eunsumptives In Chicago was mnde at
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 is a Beef disease.
1t Ii not hereditary.
1t 10 not contracted from impure air.
It Is contracted by eating bnd meat
sold by sordid and conscienceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of Jour relatives have tuber
sulosis 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 IL day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Englc will keep upon
their track until Europe as well al
America will be too hot to hold them
Tho Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspcctors-Only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention t.
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Oct0
Der %, 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
or TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
'They also condemned and destroyed
3,093 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection ut those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
II q few of the governmental Omis'
slOns are rectlfed how many thOus
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are ut this moment harbOrine
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
be cut into steaks.
Speaking of the $685., 900 pounds OF
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. c.
]. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine, December 23
says: One stands aghast at the crimi
nal cupldlty which will induce men tc
attempt to sell such dangerous foods tC
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to 90 step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this mora
oblqulty.
"It is well known that combina
tlons 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 9
direct relation to public health.
ut Is high time that this matter
be taken out Of the class of minor Of
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT or PUBLIC DANGERS. Ever
In war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sapctl0ned. II is the heiRht Of dis