Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-17

matter OF beef. pork and other food
products!
what sinister influence is ut work to
poison the people of Chicago In the in.
tcrcst of corporate monopoly
IL it is the Beef Trust, the people
should drive it out of the State.
In one year the people of Chicago
would have served on their tables
T.lIl.3lG pounds of diseased meats,
,ish, poultry and vegetables IL 1t were
not for the activity Of the city health
inspectors.
According TO the report Of DIR.
Charles ]. Whalen. Health Commits.
sioner. the government inspectors have
been dcrelict in their work and for
years Chicago markets have been vend.
.ug stun that is unfit to eat.
In one week. ending Nov. IL, this
ia what the city inspectors condemned
and destroyed:
Two hundred and eleven cattle. o..
40 pounds al hogs, l2G.6G2 pounds:
forty sheep. I,ilO pounds: three calves.
$50 pounds: fourteen quarters OF beef.
G.3Ss pounds; total weight, 2320D
pounds.
Condemned and destroyed after pass.
ing government inspection: Fourteen
quarters of beef. G,3SS pounds: four
cattle. t.i9I pounds: total weight. 1855
pounds.
inspectors in the "loop district" con.
demned and destroyed 3l,SJ0 pounds
OF meats. fish. fruits and vegetables.
Three lots of hams and bacon.
weighing 3,G25 pounds. We're condemn.
ed by the inspector ut the wholesale
markets before $ o'clock u. IN. This
material had been sent 10 Chicago
from 81. Louis and Omaha, having
been rejected there.
Suit has been entered against eight
markets for violating Of the ordinance
which forbids the hanging or exposing
Of dressed meats on the street.
Dr. Whalen sums mp the results
achieved by his department from the
time city inspection was resumed rs
follows:
Since Aug. the weekly condcmnn.
lions Of unfit food have averaged 49,.
Roo pounds Of meats, fish, poultry, etc,
and 3,lO0 pounds OF fruit and vcgc-
tables. which, II maintained for the
year. would make an aggregate OF
T.iil3lG pounds OF meat. etc, and OF
1901 200 pounds of fruits and vcge'
tables condemned and destroyed rs un'
rt for human food,
The principal causes Of meat con
dcmuation were tuberculosis, "lumpy
Jaw" hog cholera, immaturlty, and
cancellations: Of fish, "taint" and stale
ness. and of fruit and vegetables, rot
tenncss.
Under date OF Nov. II the chief meal
inspector ut the Union stock yards re
ports TO the director OF the laboratory
that las Il result OF the activity Of the
city meat inspectors In condcmnlng
tankIng and destroying emaciatcd ant
tuberculosis cattle In the coolers
after they had been passed by the gov
ernmcnt inspectors, the packers are nd
wishing shippers not to send such ami
mails into this market.
The condemned food has been foun'
not ouly in the stock yards, but in pri
yatr markets and the big cold-storag
warehouses. II has been found in tran
sit from other big meat packing cen
tors and in rare instances already pre-
pared for the table.
DR.. Whalen says the city has n b!
problem 10 crush out this immoral AM
dangerous traffic, and he will resort I
every legal resource to bring his cru
SADIE to successful end
The beef trust Is aiming to contro
the next legislature,
>c@AA
or what use Is the Illinois Pur
Food Law, when millions of chickens
turkeys and geese are kept in col
storage within the State for years
with their entrails undrawnt TheS
Beef Trust delicacles are said TO b
responsible for much sickness and tel
ribc disease.
The price % shoes Is going mp b
order Of the Beef Trust II has co
nrrrl the hide market
DO not vote for any man for III
legislature who is not known 10 4
an enemy Of the Beef Trust
~eA
How many Congressman have "
who are not controlled by the Bee
grU,tt
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