Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-15

that inspection BY the city Of all food
products h Of untold value, not only
from q financial but from . sanitary
AID hysisnic standpoint"
'.rhe following will show how neces.
sary city inspection 10 at the Union
Stock Yards:
"Tbs city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
ERNMENT INSPECTION:
"12E cattle, cause, actinOmycosis.
"O7 cattle. cause, emaciation.
"a cattle, cause, tuberculosls. evl.
dencc Of disease having bcen trimried
out.
"16 cattle. cause. 'iowners.'
''27 sheep. cause, pneumonia.
"N hogs, cause, pyaemia and tubercu.
losia
"47,720 pounds Of cut meats shipped
from 1t. Louis. Omaha, ETC., for can.
ming. This meat was sour and sllmy."
The following from the Bulletin OF
the Health Department for month Of
May: "The meat inspectors ut the
stockyards condemned and destroyed a
total Of 4sl,706 pounds Of beef, pork.
veal and mutton"
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The Doef Trust 10 still causing the
deaths Of thousands Of people BY the
selling of diseased meat.
No matter what few experts
found or what some "bustness associa.
tiOns" saw In their investigations. ("
the fact remains that the Beef Trust
II still ut the old stand.
A trust that will sell rotten, diseased
meat to people will not stop ut any.
thing to deceive the public.
Every day one reads In the daily pa.
pers about what some wise expert"
has to say about the awful untruths
told about the poor, innocent packers.
but the "poor. innocent packers
don't seem to have any "experts" writ.
Ing for the Bulletin Of the Chicago
Health department. for In Its report
for the week ending July Z, 1905, II
Gays that 1.-THE inspectors at the Union
stockyards condemned and destroyed n
total Of 151,130 pounds Of UNFIT
meats"
Oh. yes; the Beef Trust Ia being per.
secuted; i61, 138 pounds Of rotten. dis.
eased meat condemned In one week by
mere handful Of inspectors. How
much diseased meat GETS ont Of the
yards the Lord only knows!
But II 1911 pounds of diseased
meat Ia condemned by few inspectors.
the reader can easily imagine how much
unit food IL placed on the market.
Secretary Wilson says that the gov.
ernment will enforce the meat bill In
Its entirety.
Now that may DO all right In it's way,
but the fact remains that government
I'inspection has been failure In the
past.
And the only relief that the public
can hope for Ia a rigid investigation by
the Illinois Legislature.
The Legislature must investigate this
awful trust. for the health of the peo-
pie Of Chicago, Illinois and the whole
country Ia at stake.
The eyes of the whole country will
he turned on the Illinois Legislators,
and II they fail to do their duty In
protecting the lives of the nation they
will he branded a. towards.
The Illinois Legislature must do Its
duty and stop the worst menace to our
public health that We have got.
The Beef Trust can now laugh at the
law, but there " q day Of reckoning
coming.
The Illinois Legislature has duty
to perform. ana # must do II.
The Reef Trust must be stopped!
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Remembering that 1t was always the
habit to use the carcases of cancerOus
or lumpy jawed cattle after the can
GERS were cut out, the public IL prob
ably getting a fuller dose of lumpy
jawed cattle for food than ever. On
the very day that the city discontinued
it's inspection and condemnation, the
Commissioner of Health of Chicago is
sued the following remarkable instruc
lions In his bulletin Of December 80
1905:
1.-THE Commissioners has Issued TIN
following instructions to the chief In
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
"'While .stinomycosis " usually
confined to the head. and may be sale
In one sense to b Q localized disease
and while some inspectors condemn