Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-27
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Been Withdrawn from the Union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 remarkable change lms suddenly
come over the City Health Depart.
nent.
Read the awful disclosures In the
Health Department bulletins up to
December 10. published IN another
column. and then read this:
Health Department Bulletin, January
13. 1906:
Food cOndcmnntiOns have fallen of
% pcr cent since the first Of the year
from the totals Of the Inst two weeks
Of 1905. During the lust named period
49,, ,45l pounds of food unfit for human
consumption was condemned and dc.
stroyed: only 375.7O1 pounds was con.
denhne,l and destroyed during tho two
weeks ended Jan. 13. The result Ia due
to the expiration mt tho end Of the
year Of the term for which the cnicr.
gency inspectors were appointed
In other words the totals have fnllen
~ Ipr cent In two weeks.
But not because tho Reef II any bet.
tcr--tle inspectors were discharged.
This looks strange.
When the Health Department report
tons and tons Of tuberculosis beef In
the market nnd then let's Its emergency
inspectors go In the midst of the fight
Oh disease and DEATH
Something must bc doing.
| Has the city administration changed
front on the destruction of tuberculosis
cattle and their carcnscs?
Is tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than It was last year!
| In another column will bc found OK.
tracts from the Health Department an.
nunl report and weekly bulletins. do
YOU think that In the facc Of these doc.
umcnts and the facts they contain that
the city can refuse to continue the In.
sIectiOn and condemnation Of tuler.
culOsis and cancerOus cattle ut the
Stool; Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
for culinary use out Of hogs that die
Of cholera?
| How many thousands Of c,rcnscs
have the city inspectors condemned TINT
were found hanging In coolers with tho
| tWN'TcuiOSiS tTiutIueu OUT!
| Where does NIL tho meat that ar.
rives ut the Stock Yards ut night
come frOn,y
| Whose packing house was II That the
chief meat inspector went Into M de-
ccinber 10 lust with orders to arrest
the President of the concern for steal.
Ing cattle that had becn tagged and
condemned?
Did not the President Of this con-
ccrn surrender ~ condemned cattle
that Ind been thus stolen ana hIltlci.
away!
How many condemned hogs have been
sold ~ mess pork!
IL II. or IL 1t not 30. that some Of
the cattle condemned by city inspcc.
tors have been found with their whole
iiisides one mass Of corruption?
il 1t not true that the butchers ut
the yards are afraid to cut some cattle
for fenr Of contracting cOntagiOn them.
selves?
IL 1t true that many canned cattle
arc now killed outside the city and their
carcases shipped In with tuMOrs and
cancers stlll attacl,edY
Why do Kansas City and Other
points ship their tubcrculO,is, lumpy.
Jawed ana cancer cattle to ChIcagOY
Why Is 1t that diseased cattle can.
not be shipped to any point east of
Chicago?
Why Ia II, and by whose orders was
1t that after the city inspectors had
condemned 40 lumpy-jawcd cattle
that they were released?
by whose orders was It done?
IL there another city besides Chi.
cagO that will even allow lumpy-
jawed "critter" to enter It?
IL 1t not true that In st. Louis eacl,
lumpy-j -jawed beast means u fine of
$500. ana that In Toronto. Canada, the
beast ana even Its hide are destroyed !
In view of the fact that the Health
Department has officially stated that
81 per cent OF the meat condemned
by the city was afflicted with tuber.
culosis. why have the city inspectors
been ordered 10 discontinue the wOrl;
Of condcmnlng ana destroying It?
~6A
The Beef Trust has caused n big
raise In the price of shoes. The nj,