Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-04-14

Inc greatest Zoe ol Tue puuiIc heaith
in the Beef Trust.
For seven months Dr. Whalen has
been trying to get an ordinance through
the city council forbidding the sale of
any slaughtered poultry. fish. game. or
any animal used for food purposes. re-
frigerated or otherwise. which has not
been properly drawn and prepared by
removing the entrails at the time of
slaughter" Storage men estimated
that 100000 pounds of meats in Chi.
cago warehouses would come under the
ban of this law.
DIR. whalen's ordinance contains the
following provisions:
No fowls or other animals to be put
In storage without the entrails being
removed.
Warehouses to he In sanitary condi.
ton; regular inspections to guarantee
this.
An annual license fee OF $500. per.
nits to be issued to warehouses only
after they had complied with the SAM.
tary provisions.
Every article to be tagged permanent.
~ to show the date 1t Is put In stor.
age.
Retail grocers to exhibit storage
meats in original packages from the
warehouses. to show the age Of the
food. and Its history.
"Our inspectors have found meats
two and three years old In the ware.
houses DIR. whalen said.
SO important has this subject become
that the Secretary Of the State Board
Of Health, DR.. James A. Egan. has al.
dressed the following communication
10 the mayor Of every city In Illinois
THE Illinois State Board Of Health.
acting In the interest Of the lives and
health Of the people. urgently recon-.
mends to the mayors and city councils
Of all cities and the presidents and
boards OF trustees OF all villages and
to the health officials In all parts OF
l X State, the enactment and enforce
ment Of ordinances prohibiting the sale
OF poultry. tish. game, or any animal
used for food that has not been prop
crly cleaned and drawn at the time
Of the slaughterlng.
1.-THE necessity for such ordinances
and their enforcement Is plainly lnd!'
Gated by the rapidly growing custom
Of storing poultry, fish, and game con-
taining the entralls and other vlscera
and offering them for sale long periods
of time after being killed. and th'
danger to public health caused by THU
custom.
cit IL known to all physicians ant
psychologists that there are generated
In the body OF any animal poisons o
the highest degree OF toxic!ty. The In
testines and other digestive organs con
tain ut all times materials which hav
undergone putrefactive changes. Il
this material be permitted to remail
In the body after death the poison
generated may infiltrate the entir
flesh. making 1t dangerous to the pei
son who eats II. The body, In whic
the v!scera are permitted to remain
undergoes decomposition much NOR
RAPIDLY than when such v!scera hav
been removed. Decomposition Is ful
Their FASTENED by leaving the blood
the animal.
at has become the custom OF who'll
sale poulterers and packers to purchas
poultry during the early summer. whe
the prices are lowest, and TO keep
in cold storage until winter or unit
the prices are highest. Such fowls al
killed without bleeding, often pluckt
before death, and placed in cold sto
age without removing the entrails M
other viscera. Frequently they are n
offered for sale until several mont
after killing.
1.-THE process OF decomposition AZ
putrefactlon begins at once. Cold sto
age and freezing may limit the ROTH
process, but do not stop IT, VIII
poultry or animals are taken from co
storage and thawed out for exhlb!ti'
and sale the decomposition continu
with renewed energy, !mpregnat!ng &
flesh with polsons. Flesh In which Z
blood has been permitted TO remain
particularly susceptible to such decol
Ioslt!on, and this susceptibility Is
creased by the long period OF freez!l
and thawlng.
Even with poultry that Is fresh
killed there Is frequently period
several days between the time
slaughterlnz and sale. Not only Is
dangerous, but 1t Is repugnant to o
sense OF decency that the flesh we a
20 eat shall lie for several days In clio
contact with purifying ANNA! matte
Undoubtedly uEdrawn poultry, files
and game has caused many cases
poisoning which have wrongfully be-
attributed 10 other causes. The polso
ing resulting often resembled III
caused by other polsons administer
by persons or taken with suicidal !
tent"
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Physicians seemed inclined 10 al
agree with the cold storage people ;
to the possibility Of storing food pro
ucts two years or more. DR.. W. .