Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-18
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
of L.
Health Department Finds Cattle in
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

Tuberculosis Is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted With
can be sold without let or
when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
the Board of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DIR. Il. d. Dudley was adopt
ed. which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease 1t shall be made known
to the superintendent of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will he ex.
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
10 given permission to have their fam
lily physician present ut the examnn.
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
ment reports that State ana govern
mcnt inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosis beef from getting into the cool
ers from which the public Is served.
The statement that there are 10000
eonsumptives In Chicago was made ut
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit.
tee. Dr. Sachs spoke. urging drastic
action by the Board Of Health to stamp
out the disease.
tuberculosis Is q Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t II contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordld and conscienceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any OF your relatives have tuber.
eulosis you know who to blame.
The homes saddencd by the deaths
OF husbands. wives, fathers. mothers,
brothers, sisters, sons ana daughters.
The people poverty stricken by con.
sumption,
Know who II guilty!
There IL II day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood aud tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe ns well as
America will be too hot to hold them.
The Beef Trust may control govern.
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectOrs--only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin OF Octo.
ber %, 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the Union
Stock Yards condemned FIVE CAT.
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
""rhey also condemned and destroyed
3,093 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection ut those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
II u few Of the governmental Omis
sions are rectified how many thOus
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are at this moment harbOring
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle,
The above report OF the Health Com
missioner speaks of meat hanging In
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber
cular tumors trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3,93500O pounds OF
food condemned in 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. G.
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner. says
in his annual report
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine December 30
says: 'One stands aghast at the crimk
nal cupidity which will induce men tC
attempt to sell such dangerous foods tC
sn unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to go step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this mora
Obliquity.
"'It IL well known that cOmbina
tlons Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end OF rails
ing the price of food stuffs beyond the
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The Outcry has
always been In protest against the In
creased cost OF living, but here for the
first time are the combinations which
control the food supply, brought into q
direct relation to public health.
"'It Is high time that this matter
be taken out Of the class OF minor of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
n war. when all kinds OF brutality are
ssncs0sd. It v The height Of dis.