Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-28
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 is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products amicted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
the Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and Dr. Il. d. Dudley was adopt
ed, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease II shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will be cx.
amincd by medical inspectors of the
child study department.. Parents will
he given permission to have their fam.
lily physician present at the examina.
tion.
The poor children who got the tuber.
c,losis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mcnt reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosls beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public IL served.
The statement that there are $4,000
consumptives In Chicago was mdde nj
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 IL a Beef disease.
1t Ii not hereditary.
1t In not contracted from impure air.
1t In contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sOrdid and cOnscienceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any of your relatives have tuber.
culOsiS you know who to blame.
The homes saddened by the deaths
Of husbands, wives, fathers, mothers,
brothers. sisters. sons ana daughters,
The people poverty stricken BY con.
sumption,
Know who II guilty!
There IL u day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe ~ well ~
America will be too hot to hold them.
The Beef Trust may control govern.
ment inspection.
But the insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectOrs-Only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo-
ber %, 1905, speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors ut 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 ny
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
"They also condemned and destroyed
3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection at those
Places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
II a few Of the governmental omls-
sions are rectited how many thous,
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are ut this moment harbOrlng
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle?
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks of meat hanging In
the coolers Of trust houses. with tuber.
cular tumors trimmed out" ready to
he cut into steaks. .,
Speaking of the 1895, 600 pounds of
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. G.
j. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says
in his annual report
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIE
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSlS."
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan)
American Medlcine,' December 23,
says: One stands aghast at the crlmi-
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods ia
an unsuspectng community. 1t IL now
In order to go step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
Obliqu.ty.
"It IL well known that cOmbina.
tiOns Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end of rails
Ing the price of food stuffs beyond the
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The Outcry has
always been in protest against the In.
creased cost Of living, hut here for the
first time are the combinations which
control the food supply, brought into a
direct relation to public health.
at Is high time that this matter
be taken out nf the class OF minor of.
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT or lHlRLIC DANGERS. Even
IN wor. when all kinds Of brutality are
.uuptf .g,,lI II Ia tka lnIoht nf IT.,