Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-17
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
of Il.
Health Department Finds Cattle in
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

TuberculoSis Is becoming cpluemlc.
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 DR.. +. u. Dudley was adopt
Ell. which provides that when a 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 cx-
amincd by medical inspectors Of the
child study department.. Parents will
I've given permission to have their fam.
lily physician present ut the examina-
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosls 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 10000
consumptives In Chicago was made ut
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 stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis IL q Beef disease.
1t Is 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.
IL any Of your relatives have tubcr'
cuiosis 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 these
bnrons OF blood and tyrants OF the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe rs well as
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 IL In al
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient TO call attention tc
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
Der IS, 1908. speaks for itself:
The city inspectors mt the Unlor
Stock Yards condemned FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED B>
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"They also condemned and destroye,
1908 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City. havin'
passed government inspection at thos'
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
II few OF the governmental omis
slons are rectified how many thous
ands are not!
How many homes In Europe an,
America are at this moment harborin
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Con
missioner speaks Of meat hanging II
the coolers OF trust houses, with tubel
cular tumors trimmed out" ready I
be cut into steaks.
Speaking OF the 3,935,0O pounds O
food condemned In 1895 by Chicae
Health Department inspectors, DR.. {
]. Whalen. Health Commissioner, say
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED o.
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
commenting upon this conditio
Continues Commissioner Whelan,
American Medicine December q
says: one stands aghast at the erin
nal cupldlty which will induce men I
attempt 10 sell such dangerous foods
an unsuspcctng community. II is mo-
In order 10 20 Il step farther and lin
out who Is responsible for this NOR;
Obliquity.
"'It Is well known that cOmbini
tons Of the larger meat dealers hay
existed In the past 10 the end of raj
ing the price Of food stuffs beyond Il
point to which healthy compcttio
would reduce them. The Outcry hi
always been In protest against the i
creased cost Of living but here for II
first time are the combinations whlC
control the food supply, brought into
direct relation To public health.
"'It Is high time that this matte
he taken out Of the class of minor O
fenscs AND THE DEALERS THEN
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
in war, when all kinds Of brutality al
sanctioned, IL is the height Of di
hOnor--eyen murder--to poison Il
water supply Of country, Is 1t an
better to POISON the food supply;
Is time that the public mind shou
develop conscience in this direction.