Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-13
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.

murdcr--to poison the
water supply of country. Is It any
better to poison the food supply? II
Is time that the public mind should
develop conscience in this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health De-
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1905:
"The total amount Of meats con.
dcmned during the period was 1.343.3l3
.,ounds. or the principal causcs Of
condemnation. ~ PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, 12 pcr cent for
actinomycosls-lumpy jaw--and 1 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin. Dec. o.
1906: ~ total Of 147.00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
(during the past weekly under the su.
pervlslon OF the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludcs 1853 pounds of governmental.
srcctcd cut meats shipped from pack
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
Health Department Bulletin, Novcm.
Der IL, 1905:
although the condemnation and de.
structiOn Of food supplies unfit for
human consumption during the past
three months--sincc the resumption OF
Stock Yards inspection August z ult.,
by order OF the CommlssiOner--havG
reached immense proportions. much un.
lit food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats rs show gross
pathOloglc conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa.
cilities for microscopic laboratory cx.
animation have not yet been restored.
"The Union Stock Yards city ii,spec'
tors condemned and destroyed 30 parts
Of beef carcasscs, ) hogs and u cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED By
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
''rhc total stock yards condemnation
amounted to l7tiSOS pounds"
"Parts Of beef carcasscs!"
In other words It has been AMI Il
the practice to cut out the cnnccrs and
tubcrcular tunors and let the rest OF
the carcass 80 to the people for food
And yet We call ourselves civilized.
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec
| 10, 1905:
"The department has made a new
ruling In regard to 'lumpy jaw o
actinOmycotlc animals. Hereafter nj
animals that show, on pOst.morteil
examination, a degeneration of tn
lesion, with cavity formation, contain
Ing pus, will be condemned and dc
strOyed.
Heretofore only those with a gen
eral infection were destroyed"
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Health Department Bulletin, Nov
| 30, 1905:
"Stockyards inspection Of meats 10
Chicago retail markets was resume,
by order of the Commissioner o
Health on Aug. I. ult., with two dc
partment inspectors employed. OI
Oct. Z three additional inspectors wer
put to work, and Oct. 10 authOrlt!
was given by the Finance Committe'
OF the city council for the employ
ment Of six more.
"Between Aug. Z and Nov. 30 ,
grand total of ?.7S1,107 pounds o
food supplies were condemned and dc
strOyed as unwholesOme, diseased o.
otherwise unfit for human food"
Health Department Bulletin. Dec
| 10, 1908:
"Followlng Ia a summary of unf
food condemned and destroyed durln:
| the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards-202 cat
tic, weight l52,5O0 pounds; 3G2 hogs
weight 5s,S3S pounds; 10 calves
weight Gi5 pounds: IL sheep. weigh
255 pounds; 1918 pounds cut meats
Total, 23l, $50 pounds.
AT city retail markets--1S. OBJ
pounds of fish; 80 calves, 4 hogs, 2,
900 pounds; 2 cattle, l sheep, 03:
pounds of poultry aud dressed meat,
and vegetables, 1.40l pounds. Total
2l,1l4 pounds.
aggregate condemnatiOns of unfij
food during the week, 252,4i4
pounds"
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The Reef Trust will be investigated
by the next Legislature.
And what showing up there will
be!
The investigation OF the insurance
companies by the New York Leglsla
ture will not be a circumstance to 1t.
Chicago's multi-millionalres grown
rich selling disease and poison to the
people will get their Just dues then.
The Chicago Newspaper Trust can.
not save them.
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The Eagle will keep up its fight on
the cattle ana packing people until the
sale Of animals afflicted with cancer