Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-27
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.

The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis can he sold without let or
hindrancc. when past "inspcction.'
The school management committee of
the Board of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. \
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and Dr. T. -. Dudley was adopt.
ell. which provides that when Il teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease il shall bc made known
to the superintendent of schools by the
principal. After the parents of the
child are notified the pupil will he cN-
amined by medical inspectors of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam
lily physician present ut the examina
ton.
The poor children who got the tubcr.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart
mcnt reports that state and govern.
mcnt inspection does not prevent tubcr.
culosis beef from getting into the cool
ers from which the public is served.
The statement that there ar, 5000
consumptivcs In Chicago was made at
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 Is II Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t IL contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid and consciencclcss men
who think more of dollars than they
do of human lives.
II 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 Is guilty.
There Is n day of reckoning for these
barons OF blood and tyrants Of the
Trust.
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe rs well ns
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 all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to cnll attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin OF OctO.
Der -, 1905. speaks for itself:
The city inspectors mt the Union
Stock Yards condemned FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN TIE COOLERS,
WITH \ PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCuLOSIS TRIMMED OUT.
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED Bl
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
"They also condemned ana destroyed
3.Oa3 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
~. Louis and Kansas City. having
passed government inspection at those
Places
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
II n few Of the governmental omls-
slons are rectifed how many thous'
anhs are not!
How many homes In Europe and
America are at this moment harbOrlng
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 tG
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3,935.OOO 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 TIE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan)
american Medicine December 80
says: one stands aghast at the eriml
nal cupldity which viii induce men to
attempt 10 sell such dangerous foods t.
an unsuspecting community. 1t il now
in order to 90 n step farther and find
ont who Is responsible for this moral
Obliquity.
lit i well known that combna,
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, hut here for the
first time are the combinations which
control the food supply, brought into II
direct relation To public health.
lit is high time that this matter
De taken out OF the class of minor of.
fcnses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
IN war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned, IL Is the height of dis
hOnor-evcn murder-to poison the
water supply Of II country, is II any
better To poison the food supply; II
Is time that the public mind should
develOp conscience I'm this direction -