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DECLARED A serious
menace BY DOCTORS
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIA-
TIoN BODY ACTS ON THE
MEAT QUESTION

Resolutions Adopted Declaring the Sc
lection and Preparation of Meat a
Grave Danger to Public Health-op-
position in Congress to Passage of
the Pure Food Measure Severely
Criticised-N0 Member Can Explain
why He is Opposed.
Boston, June 4.-Resolutions and
report declaring that the selection and
preparation of meat for the American
and foreign market are a serious mem
ace to the public health, and severely
criticising opposition to the passage OF
the pure food bill, were unanimously
adopted to-day by the house of dele
gates of the American Medical associa-
tton, which will begin its annual meet
ing in this city tomorrow. The house
of delegates is the official directing
head Of the association, and its meet
ing to-day was preliminary to the for
NAL opening of the sessions of the full
association.
0SNC1d al lllpuhctllu P4AyolN4ellAo dAAANSNs
to-day to attend the meetings Of the
convention, which continue until Fri
day, and it is probable that fully one
quarter of the total membership Of the
ssociation-23, ,636-is in the city to-
night. In addition to the meeting Of
the house of delegates, there were also
conventions to-day Of several minor So
cieties affiliated with the national asso-
citation.
The resolutions regarding pure food
and the meat packing industry we've
presented to the house of delegates In
the annual report Of Charles A. L. Reed,
of Cincinnati, chairman Of the legisla-
tive committee. In introducing them
Dr Reed said:
mo legislator can explain his opposi-
tion to the measure (the pure food and
drug billy on any theory consistent with
either intelligence or honesty This
fact becomes all the more important
all the more significant, when the char
acter Of the opposition is taken into &C
count-an opposition which, without
exception, is made up of people inter-
ested in manufacturing and selling rot
ten and poisonous foods and liquors
with which to make the well sick and
adulterated medicines with which to
make the sick sicker. These people
the very vultures of society. possessed
of enormous sums Of ill-gotten money
are organized into a powerful lobby
whose methods stop with no scheme OF
corruption. Their boast, unblushingly
made under the roof of the capitol al
washington, is that they represent ovel
a hundred million of dollars, and thai
the pure food and drug bill simply shall
not pass.
1.-THE senate has passed this bill
There is no doubt but that large ma
dority Of the house favor it, if they car
only be given chance to vote on it
why is this chance not given? Where
Is the responsibility for the holdup? A
this moment il lies between the chair
man of the subcommittee having 1t II
charge, the committee on rules and th'
gpeaker-if, indeed, the order ought no
to be reversed. The whole house owe
it 10 itself to take the matter by unan
amous action into its own hands"
The report was adopted and resolu
tions as presented by DR.. Reed wer'
carried unanimously. The resolution
are, in part, as follows:
whereas, The revolving methods re
Gently revealed by both private ant
governmental inquiry to exist in con
nection with the selection and prepara
tion Of meat for the American and for
eign markets are serious menace t
the public health; and
whereas, The impurities demon
strated by government experts and b,
the bureau of chemistry and pharmac,
of the American Medical association t
exist in numerous other food product
in nostrums purveyed to the public, an
I'm remedies prescribed to the sick, com
nrise even more serious menaces to tn
public welfare; therefore be it
"Resolved That the American Medi
cal association, with affiliated member
ship of more than 10000 physicians, an
representing the organized medical pro
fession in 2,4OO of the 1880 counties
the United States, views with satisfac
+ion the efforts of the administratio
and of congress to protect the America
public against adulterated foods an
impure drugs, and to purge our CON
merce domestic and foreign, OF fraudu
lent products
"Resolved, That the house Of repre-
sentatives be and is hereby earnestl
netitioned to place the pending pur
food and drug bill on it's passage durin
the present week.