Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-03

Speaking of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health DE.
partment Bulletin. November 4. 1905
"rhe total amount Of meats con-
dcmncd during the period was 1.3l3.343
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. 81 FER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS. IL per cent for
actinomycosis-lumpy jaw--and per
cent for hog cholera
Health Department Bulletin. Dec. q.
1903: ~ total of 147.g0O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
,during the past week. under the su'
pervision of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In
cludes 4.9S3 pounds of government.in-
spected cut meats shipped from pack
ing houses in the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
Health Department bulletin, Novcm.
ber II. 1905:
Although the condemnation and de-
struction Of food supplies unfit for
human consumption during the past
three montl,s-slncc the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August ult.
by order of the Commissioncr--havc
reached immense proportions, much un-
fit food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats as show gross
pathologic conditions. recognizable by
the naked eye. are now condemned. Fa.
cilitics for microscopic laboratory cx.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhc Union Stock Yards city inspcc.
tors condemned and destroyed ~ parts
of beef carcasseS, 3 hogs and u cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
TIE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
".rhc total stock yards coniicmnatio
amounted to 1I6.SOS pounds"
PARTS of beef curcasscs!
In other words Il has been and IL
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubcrcular tumors and let the rest Of
the carcass go to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec
III. 1895:
.The department has made new
ruling In regard to lumpy jaw o
electromagnetic animals. Hereafter nj
animals that show, OH post.mOrten
examination, a degeneration OF tn
lesion. with cavity formation, contain
Ing pus, will be condemned and dc
stroycd.
Heretofore only those with Il gen
cral infection were destroyed
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Health Department Bulletin, Nov
30. 1905:
"Stockyards inspection Of meats 70
Chicago retail markets was resume
by order of the Commissioner @
, Health on Aug. Z. ult., with two IL
:. partment inspectors employed. o
Oct. : three additional inspectors wel
. put to work, and Oct. 10 authorit
I was given by the Finance COmmltte
, of the city council for the cmplo!
|, mcnt Of six more.
o Between Aug. : and Nov. 30
grand total Of 2,7Si,iD7 pounds I
4 food supplies were condemned and Il
stroyed as unwholesOmc, diseased I
!. otherwise unfit for human food"
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Health Department Bulletin, Nover
d ber %, 1905:
= "Condennatlons Of UNIT food durlr
}; the week:
q. AT the Union Stock Yards. GS.1
n pounds Of cattle. hogs. calves and shee
+. AT retail markets G,7aD pounds ,
% beef, ham and poultry
d Health Department Bulletin, De
% 10, 1905:
= Following Is summary Of IN
- food condemned and destroyed dnril
the week:
u AT the Union Stock Yaris--a02 q,
y tie, weight l52,5O9 pounds; @i2 hos
: weight 5S,s3S pounds; Ii calv'
~ weight Gi5 pounds; II sheep, weig
y 30 pounds; 1918 pounds cut mea
d. Total, $3.50 pounds.
" AT city retail markcts-lS,o
!" hounds of fish; 30 calves, / hogs,
W 900 pounds; cattle, ! sheep, o
W, pounds of poultry and dressed mca
u, ana vegetables, i,i9l pounds. Tot
~ 2l,lli pounds.
Aggregate condcmnatlons of IN
IL food during the week, ~
~ pounds
no ~SA
M Health Department Bulletin, u,
,s 90, lgO5:
~ AT the Union Stock Yards the 4
,,o lowing have been condemned and ,
,h strOycd:
- "2sOH cattle, weighing lls.N
pounds;
or 500 hogs, weighing i0,IT5 pOuuD
., "Cut meats weighing 5,O2i pouuD
n. 10 calves, weighing 500 pounds.
IT. - sheep, weighing 2G0 pounds.
am "Twenty-onc cattle, nine hogs M
ro 5,O2i pounds cut meats We're ga
X. demned after lpasslng) government
he spectlon.'
ny ~eSA
1t Health Department Bulletin, D'
III 80, 1905;
- "a fatal nf 1nS OoD nnt,nJs of n,n,