Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-27
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that 1t Is Guilty Of
Spreading Tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

was condemned by the department In
sl'ectors at the Union stock Yards
and destroyed under their supervision.
At retail markets. $3.50 pounds Of
dressed meats: 24.1:O pounds Of fish.
and 3.OS'i pounds of poultry. hams
nn1 rabbits were condemned and ,lc.
stroycd.
The Commissioner has issued the
following instructions TO the chief in.
spcctor at the Union Stock Yards:
"Whilc actinomycosis is usually
confined to the head, and may he said
In one sense to be a localized disease,
ana while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved. l believe 1t is
safest and most practicable to con.
denim the entire carcass wherever the
electromagnetic absccss opens into the
mouth. pharynx. larynx or any part of
the digestive or respiratory tract: or
when the lymphatic glands are invOlv-
ed or where there nrc electromagnetic
tumors In the lungs: or when the lc-
sions have become gcneralizct. since
generalization In actinomycosis ap.
pears to run very atypic course,
making the detection of all foci inside
the muscle very difficult: therefore.
the entire carcass IL to he condemned.
In eases where the electromagnetic
LESSONS arc'positivcly localized. the In.
fected part may he cut away and the
remains of the carcass used.
"'rhcsc instructions apply only TO
"luinpy jaw" There may he other
reasons why YOU should want To con.
dcmn u carcass. nn,l Il is then n mat.
ter of Judgment for You and your men.
But YOU should never hesitate 10 con.
denim II YOU believe the animal to be
not tit for human food"
The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able Of any people with fOreheads Is
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In Il powerful article
written by him In the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how care.
less community might tolerate a mo.
nopoly Of some things, how It might
endure to have It's transportation, for
Instance, or Its electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps; but that 1t should tolerate a
monopoly Of the primal necessity OF
food IL beyond comprehension and
without precedent Even naked saw.
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that, and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such a m0nstrous
condition IL our own.
From thousand Illustrations Of the
injuries we all suffer from this idiotle
arrangement let us cite one.
There Is no way OF cOmmunlcatln
disease to the human body surer thar
through infected meat tissue. Some
of the worst and most destructive ba
cllli that prey upon mankind are com
mon among the animals he eats fol
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. 1t Is 40 com
mon among cows that the wise and
the forewarned will use none but ster
llized milk. What Is hog cholera
among swine IL merely typhoid fevel
In men. Trlchinea In hogs poison,
human beings. Both these disease,
are common among swine.
Worse than all these, and more
deadly, is another fact that Is seldom
commented upon because It Is too ap
palllng to dwell much upon. What 1,
called "lumpy jaw" In cattle is simply
cancer. The germs of cancer ar,
communicable. Many cattle have
"lumpy jaw" Any animal will
"lumpy jaw" Is unfit for human
food.
This opens field that demands tn,
immediate attention OF the govern
ment. Cancer Is the most terrible Of
all diseases. After 1t has reached {
certain stage Of development 1t Is alb
solutely incurablc. Its progress t.
that stage may he without the pa
tents knowledge or suspicion. II,
advance beyond that stage canno
even be checked. 1t Stays Its victims
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increas,
of this most terrible of human af
fllctiOns has been something to alarm
us all. 1t was once rare: it nov
threatens to become common. In tn,
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870
n, the number of canccrOus patient,
was one in 5S7. In 1904 the number
was one in 273, In 1870, when tn,
total population Of the city was GIG,
$50, the number of cancer cases re
ported ut all the institutions was AZ
in 1900, with total population o
325,9O2, the number of cancer cases
reported at all the institutions wai
l0S, and in 1908, with about the sam,
population, the number was 2G7.
append the table that shows this as
tOnlshing increase.
Here Is similar report from tive
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
| YORK.
Total No.
| Year. of Datients. Cancer