Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-29

destroyed 2.7Oi.O3s pounds OF meat, as
being unfit for food: all Of which
would have been sold In the city Of Chi.
cago. and for which the purchaser
would have paid first-class prices"
"From these figures It II very evident
that inspection by the city Of all food
products II Of untold value. not only
from a financial but from sanitary
and hyglenic standpoint"
'The following will show how neces.
sary city inspection 10 ut the Union
Stock Yards:
"The city meat inspectors have con.
lemned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
EMINENT INSPECTION:
"i25 cattle. cause. nctlnomycOsis.
"07 cattle. cause, emaclation.
"2t cattle. cause. tuberculosis. evl.
dence Of disease IN, Ing been trimmed
out.
"i6 cattle. cause. 'dOwners.'
"27 sheep. cause. pneumonia.
~ hogs. cause, pyuemla and tubercu.
lOsis.
"I7,72O pounds Of cut meats shipped
from st. Louis, Omaha. etc, for can.
ming. This meat was sour and shiny"
The Reef Trust IL still marching on
leaving IN Its trail tuberculosis, cancer.
appendicitis and countless other dis
eases.
1t must be stopped!
The city IL fighting. the rnvages Of
the Beef Trust again with four meat
inspectors!
This number Ii very Insignificant
and wholly insufficient to inspect o..
600 cattle and 100000 hogs day.
But, as the Beef Trust aldermen
won't appropriate money for any more,
the Health Department does the best
1t can and that Isn't very much.
Health Department report February
10. 1906:
'.rhe inspectors Mt the Union stock.
yards condemned ana destroyed 100
cattle. 12l hogs, ~ sheep, Z calves
Il total Of l2O,4S5 pounds. OF this
amount the following was condemned
by the city meat inspectors after hav.
Ing pissed government inspection or
where the government had no jurisdlc.
ton: IS cattle, 36,295 pounds; - hogs,
?..22335 pounds; and 3,l25 pounds OF cut
meats"
From the Health Department report
for the week ending February 3, 1901 I:
''rhe four meat inspectors Mt the
Union stockyards condemned and de-
stroyed 90 carcasses of beef, 1927 hogs,
O calves. 10 sheep. 6,205 pounds Of
dressed meat--a total of 742.l5t
pounds. or this amount POI carcasses
~ heef. 13 hogs n" S,2O5 r~"~'' NJ
dressed meat We're condemned after
having been passed by the government
inspectors. or where the government In,
spectors had no Jurisdiction"
The murder of the people still goes
on.
II the Beef Trust IL so immaculate
why Ii 1t that packers forming one sec
ton OF 1t pleaded guilty In Pennsyl
vanla to the charge Of selling impure
products and were fined; that another
set of packers belonging to 1t are now
under Indictment In Lexington, Ken
lucky. for the same Offense; that tin
Pure Food Commissioner OF North Da
kota, In his report, openly names sew
eral Chicago packers, and tells how
they adulterated food?
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The Trust press Of Chicago CAREFUL!
eliminates from the reports OF the Chi
cago Health Department which 1t pub
fishes, all reference to the c0ndemna
ton Of tubercular and cancerou
cattle at the Union Stock Yards. Tn
aim Of the Trust press Ia to keep TIN
people In ignorance of true. hut awful
conditions which menace their health
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The Reef Trust mas caused a bill
raise In the price Of shoes. The al