Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-19

Tuberculosis Is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
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 DIR. r. d. Dudley was adopt
ed, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child is affected with
the disease 1t shall be made known
to the superintendent of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will be ex.
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
lily physician present Mt the examina.
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mont reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosis beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public il served.
The statement that there are $1,000
consumptives In Chicago was made ut
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 Is Beef disease.
| 1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordh and constituencies 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 saddcncd by the deaths
of husbands, wives, fathers. mothers
brothers. sisters. sons ana daughters,
The people poverty stricken by CON
sumption,
Know who Is guilty.
There IL a day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants OF tho
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upor
their track until Europe rs well as
America will be too hot to hold them
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the insignificant number Of cit,
Of Chicago inspectOrs--only II In nj
although now strangely discontinued
! was still sufficient to call attention I,
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicag,
Health Department Bulletin OF Octo
Der %, 1905. speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors Mt the Uniol
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
, OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED Bl
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
; "They also condemned and destroye,
3,003 pounds Of cut meats shipped fron
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection ut thos
places"
This shows the sort of govcrnmen
inspection we have.
II a few Of the governmental omls
slons are rectified how many thous
ands IRE not?
How many homes In Europe an,
America are Mt this moment harborin
cuts of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks of meat hanging Il
the coolers Of trust houses. with tubel
cular tumors "trimmed out" ready I
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3,035,O0O pounds O
: food condemned In 1905 by Chlcag
I Health Department inspectors, DR.. {
: ]. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
: In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED O!
] ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Commenting upon this conditio
! CONTINUES Commissioner Whelanl
American Medicine December 2:
0 says: 'One stands aghast Mt the Grim
: nal cupidity which will induce men I
attempt to sell such dangerous foods I
q an unsuspecting community. 1t Is no,
@ In order to go n step farther and fin
out who Is responsible for this NOR,
= Obliquity.
"'It Is well known that combin,
tlons of the larger meat dealers hay
existed In the past to the end of raj,
Ing the price Of food stutfs beyond til
point to which healthy competitio
: would reduce them. The outcry ha
. always been In protest against the II
creased cost of living, but here for til
first time are the combinations whic
control the food supply, brought into
direct relation to public health.
"'It Is high time that this matte
be taken out of the class of minor O
fcnses AND THE DEALERS THEN
| SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
| LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
in war, when all kinds OF brutality ~
| sanctioned, 1t Is the height Of d
| hOnor--even murder-to poison IL
water supply of n country. Is 1t an
better to poison the food supply?