Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-16
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of i.
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

Tuberculosis IL becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products aflilcted with
can be sold without let or
when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
The Board Of Education took active
.teps to prevent children afflicted with
from attending school. A
report drafted by superintendent
Cooley and DR.. r. d. Dudley was adopt
ri. which provides that when teacher
that any child Is affected with
the disease 1t shall be made known
10 the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will be ex-
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam
lily physician present ut the examine
ton.
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 IL served.
The statement that there are $4,000
consumptives In Chicago was made Mt
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds.
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit.
tee. Dr. Sachs spoke. urging drastic
action by the Board Of Health to stump
out the disease.
Tuberculosis Is n Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t IL not contracted from impure mir.
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 tubcr.
culosIs 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 In guilty!
There Ii n dny Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Englc will keep upon
their track until Europe as well a'
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 nj
although now strangely discontinued
-was stlll sufficient to call attention I,
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
her %. 1906. speaks for itself:
The city inspectors ut the UniOi
Stock Yards condemned "FIvE CAT
TILE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED B>
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"rhey also condemned and dcstroye,
3.O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped fron
st. Louis and Kansas City. havinI
passed government inspection at thos
places"
This shows the sort Of governmen
inspection We have.
II a few Of the governmental Omis
sions are rectided how many thous
ands are nOt2
How many homes In Europe an
America are ut this moment hnrbOrin
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks OF meat hanging Il
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber
cular tumors trimmed out" ready I
be cut into steaks.
Speaking OF the $685.. 900 pounds O
food condemned In 1908 by Chicag
Health Department inspectors, Dr. {
]. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED O!
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
commenting upon this conditiO
Continues Commissioner Whelan.
American Medicine December q
says: 'One stands aghast at the Grim
nal cupidity which will induce men
attempt to sell such dangerous foods
AN unsuspecting community. 1t Ia no.
} In order to 60 step farther and I'm
out who is responsible for this mOr'
ObliQuity.
lit IL well known that cOmbin
tions Of the larger meat dealers ha,
existed In the past to the end OF rai
Ing the price OF food stuffs beyond Il
point to which healthy competitiC
would reduce them. The outcry h,
, always been In protest against the 4
creased cost Of living. but here for Il
irst time are the combinations whit
control the food supply, brought Into
direct relation to public health.
".It 10 high time that this matt
he taken out OF the class OF minor Q
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEY
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Ev,
tn war. when all kinds Of brutality a
sanctioned. 1t 10 the height Of dI
hOnor-even murder-to poison Il
water supply Of country. Is It al
better to poison the food supply?
is time that the public mind shou
/ develop a conscience In this direction.
| Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculos
read the following from the Health n
/ partmant Rullatin Noyamhpr 4 100