Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-15
The illinois State Board Of Health
Hits Both Of Them Hard in
Circular.
Duty of the City Administration with
Regard to Meat Inspection Is
Very Plain.

place the establishment under suspicion
as one in which such animals are
for human consumption.
Any unsOund meat or carcass found IN
a slaughter house or In a market should
be assumed as being there for SALE
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Notwithstanding its apathy and as
poor us the city inspection Is Mt the
Stock Yards because of the very small
number Of inspectors, the government
inspection Is worse. In fact the govern.
ment inspection Is farce a. Is proven
by the following extract from the Chi.
cago Health Department report for the
week ending September 10, 1905:
THE Department inspectors at the
Union Stock Yards condemned and de.
stroyed o6,006 pounds Of meats. Of
this amount 11,645 pounds were con.
demnel BY the Department inspectors
after having been passed BY other In.
spectors."
Tie "other inspectors" are the GOV.
ernment inspectors.
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II Mayor Dunne's administration q.
stroyed over 100000 pounds Of can.
ccrous and tuberculous meat In Ave
months, by the inspection work q
only eleven inspectors, how many b.
lions Of pounds Of cancer and tubes>
culosis were fed to the people during
the years that there was no city ~
pectionf
The pure food laws will, VI coasse.
he enforced against some poor little
grocer. But against the Best Trust.
never!
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How many tuberculosis or iumpy Jaw
cattle have been released from guar.
antine" by order Of the Health D.
partment.
What object can the members OF tho
Beef Trust have In opposing the I'LL.
nois pure food laws and wanting them
amended
During The week ending Sept. 8 The
few city meat inspectors at the Union
Stock Yards condemned and Destroyed
SS.OO8 pounds Of MEATH The food In
Hectors In the "loop DISTRICT con
demned and Destroyed 47,802 pountia
Of unit foodstMfIs.
A million pounds at (JOd meat sold
outside the loop district were eaten b
the people. No inspection
The Beef Trust continues to. spread
tuberculosis, cancer and other diseases
with impunity.
One fact that escapes general atten
ton Ia that the intestlnes, blood, Nv
or, heart aud lights Tor lungs) Of an
animal are already used before the
carcass proper gets to the Inspector
This includes also what IL known III
the gut fats, out Of which lard, suet
table oils and various other things
are made.
Az soon a. a beef Ii killed. It Il
hung up BY the heels and disembow
cled.
All Of the "innards" are hauled
away.
Even the blood IL received Into q
receptacle and carried on to be
made into blood sausage, beef extract
and the like
The intestlnes are carried to the
sausage rooms to he used ~ castings.
The stomach goes elsewhere 10 be
used az tripe.
The liver. lights, heart, etc. Hnd q
ready market.
Aud, mind you. every bit Of these
portions Of the "crltter" are used
whether 1t Ia suffering from cancer
tuberculosis, lumpy Jaw, or any other
disease.
The carcass after Its "innards" are
removed Is swung along and carried ia
another place where the inspectors pass
upon 1t or pretend to pass upon 1t.
DR.. G. ]. Whalen, the efficient Health
Commissioner Of Chicago, reported the
condemnation Of nearly four million
pounds of meat during the four months
ending December 30, 1905.
Now So per cent Of these 100000
pounds were found to be afflicted with
tuberculosis.
Every ounce Of these 100000
pounds belonged to the main carcass
and had passed government inspection
What about the hearts, livers. lights,
intestines, fats, blood, tripe and other
inside belongings Of these tuberculosis
cattle from which 100000 pounds al
tuberculosis and cancerOus meat were
found and condemned?
They were sold to the people and
eaten as food!
The Cancer Trust and the Tubercu
losis Trust are still doing business.
Talk about government inspection!
We take the following from the last
annual report of DR.. Charles J.Whalen
Commissioner Of Health Of tho city Of
Chicago. The facts speak for them
selves.
AT the Union Stock Yards during
the last Ave months Of the year, sever
inspectors (five Of whom were appoint
ed In November) have condemned ant
destroyed 2,784.03 pounds Of meat, al
] being unit for food; all Of which