Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-30
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of L.
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

Tuberculosis 10 becoming epidemic.
Ths Beef Trust products afiIcted With
can be sold without let Or
when past inspection"
The school management committee OF
he Board Of Education took active
yteps to prevent children afflicted with
from attending school. A
report drafted by superintendent
Cooley and DR.. q. d. Dudley was adopt.
ID, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child is affected with
The disease 1t shall he made known
b 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 VIII
be given permission to have their fam.
lily physician present at the examina.
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.
cuiosls beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public Is served.
The statement that there are 1000
consumptives 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 is Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
II il 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 tuber'
culosls You know who to blame.
The homes snddencd by the deaths
Of husbands. wives. fathers. mothers,
brothers. sisters. sons aud daughters.
The people poverty stricken BY con.
sumption.
Know who Is guilty!
There Is n day Of reckoning for these
bnrons Of blood aud tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe as 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 nspectors-only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention tG
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
Der %, 1905. speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the Union
Stock Yards condemned FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED Ry
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
'They also condemned and destroyed
3,093 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City. having
passed government inspection at thos,
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
II a few Of the governmental omis
sions are rectifed how many thous
ands are notY
How many homes In Europe an,
America are at this moment harbOrin,
cuts OF meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging II
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber
cular tumors trimmed out" ready I,
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3035,OOO pounds O
food condemned In 1905 by Chicag'
Health Department inspectors. DR.. c
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED O.
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Commenting upon this condition
Continues Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine December .;
says: 'One stands aghast ut the crimi
nal cupidlty which will induce men I
attempt to sell such dangerous foods I
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is no,
In order to go n step farther ana fin
out who is responsible for this mora
obliquity.
"'lt Is well known that comblns
tlons Of the larger meat dealers hav
existed In the past to the end Of rais
Ing the price of food stuffs beyond In
point TO which healthy competitio
would reduce them. The outcry ha
always been In protest against the II
creased cost Of living, hut here for tn
first time are the combinations whic
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
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEN
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
h war, when all kinds Of brutality ar
sanctioned, 1t Is the height Of dis
hOnor-eyen murder-to poison tn
water supply of a country. Is 1t an
better to poison the food supply?