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

was condemned by the department In. |
spectors mt the Union stock Yards |
and destroyed under their supervision. |
At retail markets. $3.50 pounds Of |
dressed meats: 24.15O pounds of fish. |
and 3.OS6 pounds of poultry. hams
and rabbits were condemned and de- |
strOyel.
"Thc Commissioner has issued the
following instructions TO the chief in.
spector ut the Union Stock Yards:
"'While actlnomycosls Is usually
confined to the head, and may be said
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved. I believe 1t Is
safest and most practicable to con-
denim tho entire carcass wherever the
electromagnetic abscess opens into the
mouth. pharynx. larynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract: or
when the lymphatic glands are involv-
ed; or where there are electromagnetic
tumors In the lungs; or when the To-
sions have become gencralized. since
generalization In actinomycOsis ap-
pears to run Il very atypic course.
making the detection of all foci inside
the muscle very difficult: therefore.
the entire carcass is TO be condemned.
"'ln cases where the electromagnetic
LESSONS are positively localized. the In.
fccted part may be cut away and the
remains of the carcass used.
"'Thesc instructions apply only to
"lumpy Jaw" There may he other
reasons why YOU should want to con-
dcmn Il carcass. and II Is then u mat
ter of Judgment for you and your men.
But YOU should never hesitate to con.
dcmn II you believe the animal to be
not lit for human food"
The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able Of any people with foreheads Ia
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
2 speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In powerful article
written by him In the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how a care
less community might tolerate mo
e nopoly Of some things, how It might
endure to have its transportation, fol
instance, or It's electric light, control
!, !, led by one ownership, for men cur
u live without sleeping cars or nr'
u lamps; but that 1t should tolerate I
u monopoly Of the primal necessity o
J. food IL beyond comprehension ant
3 without precedent. Even naked saw
ages have uniformly been too wis
4 for that. and the only nation that ha
ever submitted to such monstrou
condition II our own.
v. From thousand illustrations Of tn
injuries we all suffer from this idiotl
Dr. arrangement let us cite one.
VI There IL no way OF communication
Df disease to the human body surer thu
@. through infected meat tissue. Som
IN Of the worst and most destructive ba
70 cllli that prey upon mankind are con
ty mon among the animals he eats 10
40 food. Cows have tuberculosis an
y. spread vast quantities Of 1t throug
the human population. 1t Is so con
n mon among cows that the wise an
NJ the fOrewarned will use none but ste
Ia. llized milk. What IL hog cholera
or among swine Is merely typhoid feve
In men. Trlchinea In hogs poison
human beings. Both these disease
are common among swine.
IL Worse than oil these. and mor
deadly, Is another fact that is seldOi
ng commented upon because 1t is too al
pailing to dwell much upon. What
'E' called "lumpy Jaw" In cattle Ia slmpl
y. cancer. The germs of cancer al
or communicable. Many cattle hay
"lumpy jaw" Any animal viii
"lumpy jaw" Is unfit for huma
&c. food.
This opens field that demands Il
Ift immediate attention Of the goverl
ng ment. Cancer Is the most terrible I
all diseases. After 1t has reached
at. certain stage Of development 1t Is a
rs. solutely incurable. Its progress
es, that stage may be without tho y
.ht tents knowledge or suspicion. !
Is. advance beyond that stage cann
even be checked. 1t Stays its victim
3O with the most horrible torture.
. In this country the recent increa
,oa of this most terrible of human n
,te 6lctiOns has been something to alar
nj MS all. 1t was once rare; it no
threatens to become common. In Il
Al, Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1871
IA n, the number of cancerOus patien
was one in 5S7. In 1904 the numb
was one in 273. In 1870, when Il
total population of the city was 2l'
&C. go, the number Of cancer cases I
ported Mt all the institutions was 4
ol- in 1900, with total population
de- 25,902, the number of cancer cas-
reported at all the institutions w
s2l 1913, and In 1908, with about the san
population, the number was oG7.
DIS. append the table that shows this q
DIS. tonishing increase.
Here is similar report from tv
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
nd ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, Ne
on' YORK.
IN Total No.
Year Of patients. Canoe
1878. ............ .l,6o5
&c. 1879. ........... 1877
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