Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-08

Tuberculosis Is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hlndrance. when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
the Board of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by superintendent
Cooley and DIR. II. d. Dudley was adopt
ed, which provides that when a teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease 1t shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will be ex.
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
lty physician present ut the examine
ION.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mcnt reports that State and govern
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
eulosis beef from getting into the cool.
err from which the public IL served.
The statement that there IRE 1900
eunsumptives In Chicago was made at
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit.
tse. DIR. Sachs spoke. urging drastic
action by the Board Of Health to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis is a Beef disease.
1t is not hereditary.
It ID not contracted from impure air.
1t Ii contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid and conscienceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any of your relatives have tuber.
sulosis you know who to blame.
The homes saddened by the deaths
Of husbands, wives, fathers, m0thers,
brothers. sisters. sons and daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con.
sumption,
Know who IL guilty!
There In day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Dasle will keep upon
their track until Europe ~ we'll a.
America will be too hot to bold them.
The Beef Trust may control govern.
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectors--0nly II In oil
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo.
Der %. 1905. speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the Union
Stock Yards condemned "FlVE CAT.
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS.
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT.
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED ny
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
'"rhcy also condemned and destroyed
3,003 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection at those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
IL q few Of the governmental Omls.
siOns are rectifed how many th0us.
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America IRE at this moment harboring
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle?
The above report Of the Health Com.
missioner speaks of meat hanging In
the coolers Of trust houses, with tubcr.
cular tumors trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the $685.. 600 pounds Of
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. O..
]. Whalen, Health Commissioners, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
Commenting upon this condition
| CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan), +,
American Medicine December %,
says: One stands aghast at the crimi-
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectng community. 1t Is now
In order to go step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
Obliqulty.
"'It Is well known that cOmbina.
tions OF the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end of rails.
Ing the price Of food stuffs beyond the
point TO which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry has
always been In protest against the in
creased cost Of living, but here for the
first time are the combinations which
control the food supply, brought Into a
direct relation to public health.
"It is high time that this matter
he taken out OF the class of minor OF.
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT or PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
IN war, when all kinds Of brutality are