Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-04-21
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of i.
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved, I believe 1t Is
safest and most practicable to con.
demn the entire carcass wherever the
actinomycOtic abscess opens into the
mouth. pharynx. larynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract: or
when the lymphatlc glands are involv.
ed; or where there are actinomycotic
tumOrs In the lungs; or when the lc-
siOns have become generalized, since
generalization in actinomycosis ap-
pears to run very atypic course.
making the detection of all foci inside
the muscle very difficult: therefore.
the entire carcass Is to be condemned.
"'1n cases where the actinomycotic
LESSONS are positively localized. the in
fccted part may be cut away and the
remains Of the carcass used.
These instructions apply only to
''lumpy Jaw" There may he other
reasons why you should want TO con.
demn a carcass. and 1t Is then mat.
ter Of Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate TO con-
denim II you believe the animal to be
not ht for human food"
The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able Of any people with foreheads Is
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands OF one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In powerful article
written by him in the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how care.
less community might tolerate mo.
nopoly Of some things, how II might
endure to have its transportation. for
instance, or Its electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or are
lamps; but that 1t should tolerate a
monopoly Of the primal necessity Of
food Is beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked say.
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that. and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such monstrous
condition Is our own.
From a thousand illustrations Of the
injuries we all suffer from this idlotic
arrangement let us cite one.
There Is no way Of communicating
disease TO the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Some
Of the worst and most destructive ba.
cilli that prey upon mankind are com.
mon among the animals he eats for
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. It II 80 com.
mon among cows that the wise and
the forewarned will use none but ster-
ilized milk. What is hog cholera
among swine Ii merely typhoid fever
In men. Trichinea In hogs poisons
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than all these, and more
deadly, is another fact that is seldom
commented upon because It is too ap'
palling to dwell much upon. What IL
called "lumpy jaw" In cattle Is simply
cancer. The germs Of cancer are
communicable. Many cattle have
''lumpy jaw" Any animal with
"lumpy jaw" is unit for human
food.
This opens a field that demands the
immediate attention Of the govern
ment. Cancer Ia the most terrible OF
all diseases. After It has reached q
certain stage Of development 1t il ab
sOlutely incurable. Its progress tc
that stage may be without the pa
TENTS knowledge or suspicion. Its
advance beyond that stage cannot
even be checked. 1t slays Its victims
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increase
of this most terrible Of human af
fiictions has been something to alarm
us all. 1t was once rare; 1t now
threatens to become common. In the
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870
u. the number Of cancerOus patients
was one In 5S7. In 1904 the number
was one in 273. In 1870. when tho
total population Of the city was PIG.
230, the number Of cancer cases re
ported at all the institutions was AZ
In 1900, with total population OF
500, ,002. the number of cancer cases
reported Mt all the institutions wa,
1903, and In 1908. with about the same
population. the number was 2G7.
append the table that shows this as
tOnishing increase.
Here Is q similar report from two
well.known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
YORK.
Total No.
Year. Of patients. Cancer
1878. .................1, ,0oo =:
lS7( lat Al