Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-07
Report of the Special Commit.
tee of Chicago Specialists
Has Been Made Public
TWO WEEKS OF INSPECTION
State That the General System Of the
Packing Houses is Clean and That
tine Products Are Wholesome-chi-
caeo Paper Claims the Report Was
"Doctored."

Chicago, July 1.-The report of the
Joint committee of the Chicago Com
mercial Association and Illinois Man
ufacturers' Association, appointed to
investigate the packing industries OF
Chicago, together with the report of
the experts who accompanied them. has
been made public. The committee
says:
THAT board of experts of the
character employed, with professional
ideals and guided nd Influenced by an
aesthetic sense which 'embodies
something of necessity and something
more of luxury should find the product
wholesome the yards generally
clean and the inspection efficient
seems to your committee to cover the
situation.
"As result Of this investigation,
we ourselves have no hesitancy in stat
ing that the meat products of the yards
are wholesome and proper food.
I'VE find that the companies have
been improving the conditions and
products from year to year. that i'm
provements are constantly being made
and will be made. and we believe that
the conditions and surroundings at the
plants carefully protect the quality of
the product"
The experts who accompanied the
committee were:
DR.. w. A. Evans, professor of path
ology, University of Illinois; Dr. Max
imilian Herzog, late pathologist bu-
reau of science, Manila, P. L.; DIR. NJ. P.
Ravonel, pathologist to the Phipps in
stitute, Philadelphia, Pa; Prof. A. p.
Peters, University of Nebraska. and
Prof. M r. Reynolds, University of
Minnesota. all eminent specialists.
Their investigation occupied two
weeks, during which they made as
thorough a study of conditions In the
stock yards and packing houses as
they could possibly make within that
time.
They say that part Of most of the
plants are up to date. yet In each OF
these there are some sections that are
indifferently good, and in most of
them something that they cannot APP
prove of.
1.-THE committee can cite no better ev-
idence of the truth of this statement
than the very extensive improvements
that are now going on everywhere.
These betterments relate in some plants
to minor things and In others they
mean a complete rebuilding of old
plants"
Continuing, the committee says:
Nowhere is there greater vagueness
and less definite information than in
regard to preservatives. Even scien-
lists differ on this subject. Your COM
mittee has Investigated by inquiry, by
search, and by analysis to determine
where personalities were used. 1t
gives the preservatives used. but does
not discuss the question Of the harm
fulness from the personalities en-
ployed on the one hand, nor the sup
posedly increased dangers resulting
from the use of unpreserved products
differently preserved, on the other.
'It especially commends these ques-
lions for further scientific inquiry"
Concerning tuberculosis in meat the
committee quotes this opinion of Prof.
William M. WEIGH, of the Johns Hop
kins University, Baltimore, who said:
''In view of the absence of any pos
sible danger to health arising from the
use of the meat of cattle affected with
only localized tuberculosis on actino-
nycosis Qumpy jaw Of slight or mod
crate extent, it would, in my opinion,
be extravagant and indeed absurd to
condemn the carcasses Of such cattle,
provided the animals are we'll nour-
ished and otherwise in good condition.
Tt is, Of course, understood that the
diseased part and organs are COM
pletely removed and that proper pre-
cautions are taken to guard against the
accidental contamination Of the meat
with the tubercule bacilli during and
after slaughtering.
"As regards tuberculosis. I consider
that ali reasonable demands are met
by the condemnation of the carcasses
affected with extensive active tuber-
culosis and with generalized tubercu-
losis The demands solely of public
health would doubtless be met by less
stringent regulations"
Gas regards tuberculosis I consider
that all reasonable demands are met
by the condemnation of the carcasses
affected with extensive active tubercu>
losis and with generalized tuberculosis.
The demands solely of public health
would doubtless be met by less strin-
gent regulations"
Say Report Was "Doctored."
Chicago, July TN the Chicago
Tribune yesterday morning it was
stated that the report of the experts
as originally prepared would not be
made public. but that it would first
be edited by the associations which
employed the experts.
1.-The experts, it appears. saw things
differently at the yards than the lay
members of the committee" said the
Tribune. "T,he committee wanted
them to make Important alterations in
their report it is understood. This the
experts, who took themselves quite SER
iously and spoke of their professional
regulations, were not willing to do.
1.-The committee. lay members and
experts, were in session all of Thursday
afternoon at TIE offices of the Illinois
Manufacturers Association in the Mar
quette building.
"At times the session was exceed
ingly warm. Once loud voice was
heard in the corridor outside, saying:
"I'll never stand for that
ut sounded like the voice of an ex-
pert.
Vigorous denials of any dissension
were made by all concerned at night;
doubtless they will be reiterated with
increased vigor today.
Despite all denials to the contrary.
tbo ,,,e,nhers of the Manllfa ctIIrerS' s.