Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10
Why Have the City Emergency Inspectors
Been Withdrawn from the Union
Stock Yards7
In View of the Facts Published Else
where on This Page, This
Looks Bad.

a remarkabIe change ms stludenIy
come over the City Health Depart
ment.
Read the awful disclosures In the
Health Department bulletins up to
December 30, published IN another
column, and then read this:
Health Department Bulletin, January
13. 1906:
FOOD condemnations have fallen of
90 per cent since the first of the year
from the totals Of the Inst two weeks
Of 1905. During the last named period
49,, ,45l pounds Of food unfit for human
consumption was condemned and dc.
stroycd; only 375,7O1 pounds was con.
denned and destroyed during the two
weeks ended jan. 13. The result Is due
to the expiration ut the end Of the
year Of the term for which the emcr.
gency inspectors were appointed"
In other words the totals have fallen
- per cent In two weeks.
But not because the Beef IL any bet.
tcr--the inspectors were discharged.
This looks strange.
When the Health Department report
tons and tons Of tuberculosis beef In
the market and then let's Its emergency
inspectors go In the midst of IT,, fight
on disease and death.
Something must bc doing.
Has the city administration changed
front on the destruction of tuberculosis
cattle and their cnrcnses?
IL tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than 1t was last year;
In another column will bc found OK.
tracts from the Health Department nm.
nunl report and weekly bulletins. do
you think that I'm the fncc Of these doe.
uments and the facts they contain that
the city can refuse to continue tho In.
sIectlOn and condemnation Of tuler.
culosis and cnnccrOus cattle ut the
Stock Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
for culinary use out Of hogs that die
Of cholera?
How many thousands Of carcases
have the city inspectors condemned that
were found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
| Where does all the meat thnt ar
rives ut the Stock Yards ut night
come from?
Whose packing house was II TINT tll(
chief meat inspector went into nn DE
ccmher 30 last with orders to arrest
the President Of the concern for steal
Ing cattle that had been tagged ant
condemned?
Did not the President Of this con
Germ surrender - condemned cattl,
that had been thus stolen ana bidder
awayY
How many condemned hogs nave beer
sold nv mess pork?
| Is II. or Is It not 80, TINT some o
tho cattle condemned by city lnspec
tors have been found with their Who'll,
Insltes one mass Of corruption?
Is 1t not true that the butchers a
the yards arc afraid to cut some cattl
for fear Of contracting contaglon them
selves?
IL 1t true that many canned cattl
are now killed outside the city and tllei
carcases shipped In with tumors AM
cancers still attached?
Why do Kansas City aud othe
points ship their tuberculous. lumpy
jawed ana cancer cattle to Chicago?
Why Is 1t that diseased cattle car
not be shipped to any point east q
Chicago?
Why ls It, and by whose orders wa
1t that after tho city inspectors ha
condemned 10 lumpy-jawed cattl
that they were "released"?
by whose orders was 1t done?
Is there another city besides Ch
cagO that will even allow a lumpy
jawed "critter'' to enter It?
Is 1t not true that In st. Louis eac
lumpy-jawed beast means fine q
$500. and that In Toronto, Canada, til
beast ana even its hide are destroyed
In view of the fact that the Healt
Department has officially stated tina
So per cent Of the meat cOndemne
by the city was afflicted with tube
culOsis, why have the city inspector
been ordered to discontinue the w0r
OF condemning and destroying It?
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The Beef Trust has caused bl
raise In the price of shoes. The a
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