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

IuDerCuIOStS Is DecOmluS cVlucIIlC.
The Beef Trust products afflicted 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 DIR. T.. ID. Dudley was adopt.
ell. which provides that when n teacher
suspects that any childis 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-
amincd by medical inspectors OF the
child study department. Parents Will
be given permission to have their fam.
lily physician present ut the exnmna-
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosls from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mcnt reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosis beef from getting into the cool.
era from which the public IL served.
The statement that there are $4,000
cvnsumptlvcs In Chicago was made ut
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman OF the tuberculosis commit
tee. DR.. Sachs spoke, urging drastic
action by the Board Of Health to stamp
nut the disease.
Tuberculosis Is q Beef disease.
1t IL not hereditary.
1t In not contracted from impure air.
1t IL contracted by eating bud meat
sold by sordid and consclenceless 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 saddencd by the deaths
Of husbands, wives, fathers. mothers
brothers, sisters, sons and daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con
sumption,
Know who IL guilty!
There Ii a day Of reckoning for tlics,
barons Of blood and tyranS Of thu
Trust
The Chicago Englc will keep upor
their track until Europe rs we'll III
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 nj
although now strangely discontinued
WAS still sufficient to Gull attention t
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
ber %, 1905, speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors Mt the UnioI
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED Rl
TIE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
"rhey also condemned and destroyed
3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City. havin,
passed government inspection ut thOs,
Places"
This shows the sort of government
Inspection we have.
II u few Of the governmental omis
sions are rectltied how many thous
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe ant
America are ut this moment hnrborini
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report OF the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging II
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber
cular tumors trimmed out" ready I,
he cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3,03500O pounds ot
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, Dr. G
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED on
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine December 2l
says: 'One stands aghast at the crimi
nal cupidity which will induce men t.
attempt to sell such dangerous foods t.
an unsuspectlng community. 1t IL now
In order to go a step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this mora
obliqu,ty.
"'lt Is 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 thu
point 10 which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry has
always been in protest against the In
creased cost Of living, but here for the
first time are the combinations which
control the food supply, brought into q
| direct relation to public health.
"'It Is high time that this matter
he taken out Of the class Of minor of.
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
In war. when all kinds Of brutality Mre
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