Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-20

Tuberculosis IL 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. A
report drafted by superintendent
Cooley and DIR. r. d. Dudley was adopt.
ed, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease 1t shall be made known
70 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.
lily 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
mcnt reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosls beef from getting into the cool
ers from which the public IL served.
The statement that there nre $4,000
cvnsumptives In Chicago was made ut
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 IL a Beef disease.
1t is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid and conscienceless 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 and daughters,
Tho people poverty stricken by con-
sumption,
Know who In guilty!
There IL a day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrann Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe as well al
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 oil
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention Il
horrible facts.
} The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of OctO
Der %. 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the Unior
Stock Yards condemned FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
"They also condemned and destroyed
3,O83 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection at thost
places"
This shows the sort Of government
Inspection We have.
II few Of the governmental omis
sions are rectiAed 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
J missioner speaks of meat hanging II
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber
cular tumors trimmed out" ready h
be cut into steaks.
Speaking OF the $685. 900 pounds o
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. G
]. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
. in his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THF
, MEATS WERE CONDEMNED on
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
/ Commenting upon this condition
, Continues Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine December %
, says: 'One stands aghast at the crlmi
, nal cupidity which will induce men t,
| uttcupt W scli sutli
, an unsuspectlng community. 1t Is now
. In order To 60 step farther and fine
out who is responsible for this mora
obllqulty.
"'lt Is well known that comblna
tions Of the larger meat dealers have
existed in the past to the end OF rails
ing the price of food stuffs beyond thu
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The 0utcry 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 q
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. Even
In war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned, It 10 the height Of de.