Chicago eagle., 1906-03-31
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty Of
Spreading Tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

ana Wn1Ie some inspectors condemn
only the part involved, I believe 1t Ii
safest and most practicable to con.
demn the entire carcass wherever the
electromagnetic abscess opens into the
mouth. pharynx. larynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract; or
when the lymphatlc glands are involv.
ed; or where there are actinOmycOtic
tumOrs In the lungs; or when the le.
sions have become generalized, since
generalization In actinomycosis ap-
pears to run very atyplc course,
making the detection of all fOci inside
the muscle very difficult; therefore,
the entire carcass is to be condemned.
"'1n cases where the actinOmycOtic
LESSONS are positively localized. the In.
fected part may be cut away and the
remains Of the carcass used.
"'rhcse instructions apply only to
''lumpy Jaw" There may be other
reasons why you should want to con.
dcmn carcass. and Il Is then mat.
ter Of Judgment for you and your men.
But yo,bshould never hesitate TO con.
demn II you believe the animal to be
not fit for human food"
The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able Of any people with foreheads 10
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In powerful article
written by him In the Appeal to Rca.
son. You can understand how a care.
less community might tolerate mo.
nopoly Of some things, how It might
endure to have its 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 q
monopoly Of the primal necessity Of
food Is beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked say.
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that. and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such O monstrous
condition Is our own.
From thousand illustrations Of the
injuries we all suffer from this idiotic
arrangement let 10 cite one.
There II no way Of communicating
disease to the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Some
Of the worst and most destructive ba'
GILL 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. It 10 80 com
mon among cows that the wise and
the forewarned will use none but ster
ilixed milk. What Is hog cholera
among swine Is merely typhoid fever
In men. Trlchinca In hogs pois0ns
human beings. Roth these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than all these, and more
deadly, is another fact that IL seldom
commented upon because 1t IL too ap
pailing to dwell much upon. What Il
called "lumpy jaw" In cattle is simply
cancer. The germs Of cancer are
communicable. Many cattle have
"lumpy Jaw" Any animal witt
"lumpy jaw" Is unit for human
food.
This opens a field that demands thu
immediate attention Of the govern
ment. Cancer 10 the most terrible ol
all diseases. After It has reached Z
certain stage Of development 1t is alb
solutely incuralhe. Its progress Il
that stage may be without the pa
tents knowledge or suspicion. 1T
advance beyond that stage canno
even be checked. 1t Stays its victlml
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increas,
Of this most terrible Of human af
alctiOns has been something to alarm
us all. 1t was once rare; 1t nov
threatens to become common. In tn
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870
II, the number Of cancerOus patient
was one In 5S7. In 1904 the numbe
was one In 273. In 1870. when tn
total population Of the city was 2l0,
$50. the number of cancer cases re
ported ut all the institutions was q
In 1900, with total population o
3250O2, the number Of cancer case
reported ut all tho institutions wa
l0S. and In 1908, with about the sam
population. the number was 207.
append the table that shows this al
tOnishing increase.
Here is a similar report from tw'
well.known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
YORK.
Total No.
Year. Of patients. Cancer
1878. 600 =