Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-08

that inspection by the city Of all food
products 10 Of untold value, not only
from a financial but from sanitary
and hyglenlc standpoint"
"rhe following will show how neces.
sary city Inspection 10 at the Union
Stock Yards:
1.-THE city meat inspectors have con.
delnned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
EMINENT INSPECTION:
"i25 cattle. cause. actinomycosis.
"07 cattle. cause, emaciation.
"2l cattle. cause, tuberculosis. evi.
dence Of disease la, Ing been trimmed
out.
nc cattle. cause, 'Iowners.'
'27 sheep. cause. pneumonia.
20 hogs, cause, pyaemia and tubercu.
losis.
ATTIC pounds Of cut meats shipped
from st. Louis. Omaha. ETC.. for can.
ming. This meat was sour and Shiny"
The following from the Bulletin Of
the Health Department for month Of
May: 1.-THE meat inspectors Mt the
stockyards condemned and destroyed u
total Of 4Sl.705 pounds Of beef. pork.
veal and mutton"
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The Beef Trust u still causing the
deaths Of thousands Of people by the
selling Of diseased meat.
| No matter what few experts"
found or what some 'business associa.
lions" saw In their investigations"
the fact remains that the Beef Trust
Is still at the old stand.
A trust that will sell rotten. diseased
meat to people will not stop at any.
thing to deceive the public.
Every day one reads In the daily pa.
pers about what some wise expert"
has to say about the awful untruths
told about the poor, innocent packers.
But the ''poor, innocent packers"
don't seem to have any experts" writ.
Ing for the Bulletin OF the Chicago
Health department, for In its report
for the week ending July Z, 1900. 1t
says that "the inspectors at the Union.
stOckyards condemned and destroyed 4
total Of lbl.l88 pounds Of unnt
meats"
oh. yes; the Beef Trust ID being per.
secuted: l6l.l8a pounds Of rotten. dis.
eased meat condemned In one week BY
q mere handful OF inspectors. How
much diseased meat sets out Of the
yards the Lord only knows!
But II l6l.l86 pounds OF diseased
meat 10 condemned by few inspectors.
the reader can easily imagine bow much
unit food 10 placed on the market
Secretary Wilson says that the gov.
crnment will enforce the meat bill In
Its entirety.
Now that may be all right In Its way.
but the fact remains that government
Inspection has been a failure In the
past.
And the only relief that the public
can hope for IL rigid investigation by
the Illinois Legislature.
The Legislature must investigate this
awful trust for the health OF the peO'
pie Of Chicago, Illinois and the whole
country Is at stake.
The eyes Of the whole country will
he turned on the Illinois Legislators,
and II they fall to do their duty In
protecting the lives Of the nation they
will be branded as towards.
The Illinois Legislature must do Its
duty and stop the worst menace to our
public health that we have got.
The Beef Trust can now laugh at the
law, but there Ii a day OF reckoning
coming.
} The Illinois Legislature has a duty
10 perform, and 1t must do II.
The Beef Trust must be stopped!
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Remembering that It was always tn,
habit to use the carcases OF cancerOu
or lumpy jawed cattle after the can
Gers were cut out. the public 10 prob
ahly getting Q fuller dose 1t lump!
jawed cattle for food than ever. o.
. The very day that the city discontinue,
it, inspection and condemnation. tn
|. Commissioners Of Health az Chicago ID
sued The following remarkable instruc
} tious In bic bulletin OF December &c
, 1o0S:
. 'Ths Commissioners has Issued th
following instructions to the chief In
} speeto9 at The Union otoek Yards:
"'While sstinomycosis y usuall
!. coaAnsd - The had and may b sai'
!. h sas ssnss b b localissd dissasl
aA6 whils sane inspectors eoadam'