Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-08
The illinois State Board Of Health
Hits Both Of Them Hard in
Circular.
Duty of the City Administration with
Regard to Meat Inspection Is
Very Plain.

Tue new government law, ~ every
body knows. does not provide for the
inspection Of meat consumed In Chicago
and Illinois.
The strange apathy Of the Chicago
authorities In the matter Of Beef Trust
violations Of the law, Is arousing the
attention of the entire country.
The flooding Of Chicago and the
State Of Illinois with lumry Jaw, tub.
CIRCULAR and cancerous beef Is causing
widespread indignation.
The Illinois state Board Of Health
has just issued strong circular con-
tanning recommendation to municipnll.
ties concerning the supervision and In.
spection Of slaughter houses, packing
houses, etc.
The following extracts show how
hard the circular hits the city govern.
ment Of Chicago:
THE Illinois state Board OF Health.
BY special resolution, adopted at regu.
lar meeting. held In Chicago June 10Th
and 21st. 1905. urgently recommends
to the mayors and councils Of all cities
anu the presidents and boards Of trus.
tees Of all villages, and to all other
health officials In oil parts Of the State.
the enactment and enforcement Of ordi.
nances providing for the supervision
and the regular and systematic inspec.
tion of all slaughter houses, packing
houses, storage houses, markets, Gel.
lars and all other establishments used
Cor the preparation, manufacture. stor.
age or sale Of food Intended for hu.
man consumption.
'.rhe health Of the people Il largely
dependent upon the purity. quality and
cleanliness Of their food and these
may be controlled and guaranteed to
the people only through the conscien.
t,ous efforts Of health officials acting
under the powers conferred upon them
by the statutes.
'.The people Of each municipality
have the right to expect that the OH.
ciais whom they have entrusted with
the enforcement Of the law, will give
them every possible protection provided
BY the law. and the statutes OF the
State Of Illinois are 20 liberal In their
construction ~ to give to the munich
pality full power to control all Of those
things which may In any way eject the
health Of tile people.
"UMier the provisions Of an act to
provide for the incorporation OF cities
and villages. approved April ID. ls12'
(Revised Statutes. Chapter "a. Section
O2), the councils In cities and the presi'
dent and the board Of trustees In VII
lagos are empowered to regulate the
sale Of meat. poultry. fish. butter
cheese. lard. vegetables and all other
provisions; to regulate the sale OF
bread and to prescribe Its quality; to
provide for the inspection OF all articles
OF food; to declare what shall con-
stitute a nuisance and to abate same
and to fine all who permit nuisancea
to exist; to appoint a board Of health
and prescribe its powers and duties
no DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALL
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH OR no PREVENT Dis
EASE; to direct location and regulate
the management and construction ID
hacking houses either within the limits
Of the corporation or within one male
from it boundaries; 70 compel th<
owner Of any grocery or any unwhols
some or nauseous place 10 cleanse and
abate or remove same and to regulate
IL location. Under the provisions Of
the same law. municipalities are en-
powered 10 impose zines, not exceeding
$500 for each ofssnss, or imprisonment
not exceeding elk months, for the viola
ton Of any Of IL ordinances"
'Aside from the specific provisions q
the law. quoted above. the one pro
vision, empowering the municipality
TO DO ALL ACTS AND Make ALI
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH AND PREVENT DISEASE.
gives ample authority for the local OH
cials to undertake the supervision anf
systematic inspection Of those place'
In which food for human consumption
10 either prepared, manufactured
stored or offered for sale. However
the specific provisions Of the statutes
remove all doubt as to the limits II
which the municipality may 90 In TIN
protection Of the health Of the people.
"Aninai food Ia particularly suscep
tible to bacterial action and to decom
position which II FASTENED by killinl
and handling In dlthy slaughter house
or by improper refrigeration and .stor
age"
"MEAT FROM DISEASED AM
MAILS, TOO FREQUENTLY sIAAUGH
TERED FOR HUMAN FOOD. MAJ
RE PRODUCTIVE OF WIDESPREAD
DISEASE AMONG THOSE WIG
CONSUME IT."
1.-THE oft repeated statement TIM
cooking will remove the poiso proi
critics Of spoiled meat Il not to be n
lied upon."
"In view Of these Facts, It ID the dut
o; The health oficials Of all municipal
ties TO establish such supervision an
inspection - will render imposatble tn
malntenance Of unSanitary slauGhte
Aoasss and packing 0ouses. the KILN
q diseased animals or the sale .
msats and other foods which. BY the'
original character, or changes while
At "a a. ma