Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-11-24
The Chicago Health Department Tells the
Public that lumpy Jaw Beef Causes
Appendicitis.
The Chicago Eagle Has Made this
Contention for a Year and
Is Upheld.

The Health Department of the city
of Chicago has finally upheld the con.
tention of The Chicago Eagle, main.
tained for over year. that lumpy Jaw
beef. sold by Chicago packers TO con.
sumers after the local ulcers had been
cut away, was the cause OF append.
citis.
In bulletin just issued by Commis.
sioner of Health Charles J. Whalcn.
the following warning to the public
appears:
In Its report to the council Of the
Chicago Medical Society last July, the
Committee of the Society, appointed to
examine into the sufilciency OF the I'm.
structions to Meat Inspectors" Of the
Health Department, with reference to
the protection of the health Of the con.
sumer and of the public health, said.
ns to actlnomycosIs. or "lumpy jaw :"
''rhe Chicago regulations are distinctly
more severe than those Of other coun.
tries. The committee holds
that the regulations as to condemnation
for assesses opening into the digestive
or respiratory tract are unnecessarily
severe In the absence of secondary
symptoms. Otherwise the rules were
approved"
The results Of study Of actinOmyco-
sis In the human being and In animals,
by the pathologists Of the Department
Laboratories, had led the commission.
er to supplement the original instruc-
tions concerning the inspection OF
"lumpy jaw" cattle, with special or.
der. reading rs follows:
"Whllc actinomycoslss Is usually con
fined to the head, and may be said, In
one sense, to be localized disease, and
while some inspectors condemn the part
Involved, believe II Is safest and most
practicable TO condemn the entire car
cass whenever the actInomycotic OBJ.
sccss opens into the mouth, pharynX,
larynX, or any part OF the digestive or
respiratory tract: or when the lymphat-
ic glands are involved or where there
are electromagnetic tumors in the lungs ;
or where the LESSONS have become gen.
eralized, since generalization in actl.
nomycosls appears to run very atyplc
course, making the detection of all foci
inside the muscle very difficult. There.
fore, the entire carcass Is to be con.
demned.
in cases where the actinOmycotic
LESSONS are positively localized, the in
fected part may be cut away and the
remainder Of the carcass used.
These instructions apply only to
'lumpy jaw There may be other rca-
sons why you should want to condemn
carcass, and IL Is then a matter of
Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate II you
believe the anima! 10 be not fit for
human food"
That the Departments regulations,
based upon the pathologlc study re.
fcrrci 10, are not unnecessarily Sc,
yere,' receives additional proof in a
recent address ana discussion before
the Medical Society Of London, Eng,
reported In the Lancet OF October T.
inst. page 1861. The subject of the
address was actlnomycosis as an ex-
c!tant of appendicitis, ana the facts
adduced certainly indicate one probable
cause OF the increase of the latter dis
ase-appendcitls.
The essaylst, i. II. Kelloch, first
pointed out how much more frequently
was recognized "sincc
more modern methods OF examination
had been emplOyed"--as In the studies
Of the Chicago Departments patholo-
slsts. The affection was formerly be-
lieyed 10 attack the jaws, the liver
and the lungs almost exclusively in
persons whose lives were spent in the
1t was now often recognized In
other parts Of the body or in town
dwellers. The star or ray formation
was not always present, and It's alb.
sence must frequently have led to
negative diagnosis when the affection
might have been recognized by proper
staining. As the fungus or strepto.