Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-22
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.

The new government law, as every
body knows, does not provide for the
inspection of meat consumed In Chicago
and Illinois.
The strange apathy Of the Chicago
in the matter of Beef Trust
of the law, Is arousing the
attention of the entire country.
The flooding of Chicago and the
State of Illinois with lumry Jaw, tub.
CIRCULAR and cancerous beef Is causing
widespread indignation.
The Illinois state Board Of Health
has Just issued strong circular con-
tanning recommendation to municipali.
ties concerning the supervision and In.
spection Of slaughter houses, packing
houses, etc.
The following extracts show how
hard the circular hits the city govern.
ment Of Chicago:
..rhe Illinois state Board Of Health.
BY special resolution, adopted at regu'
lar meeting, held in Chicago June 2Oth
and 2ist, 1903. urgently recommends
10 the mayors and councils Of all cities
an. the presidents and boards Of trus'
tees Of all villages, and to all other
health officials In all parts Of the State.
the enactment and enforcement Of ordi.
nances providing for the supervision
and the regular and Systematic inspec'
ton Of all slaughter houses, packing
houses, storage houses, markets, eel.
lars and all other establishments used
Tor the preparation, manufacture, stor'
aee or sale Of food Intended for hu'
man consumption.
..rhe health Of t,,e people Il largely
dependent upon the purity. quality and
cleanliness Of their food ana these
may DO controlled and guaranteed to
the people only through the conscien'
tIous efforts Of health ohhcials acting
under the powers conferred upon them
by the statutes.
'srhc people Of each municipality
have the right to expect that the oni'
cials whom they have entrusted WIFI
the enforcement Of the law, wall give
them every possible protection provided
Nv the law, and the statutes Of the
state Of Illinois are 20 liberal In thea'
construction as to give to the munic'
nality full mower to control all OF THOSE
things which may In any way enect TN
health Of the people.
"Under the provisions Of an act q
provide for the Incorporation OF cue
and Villages, approved April 10. 1917
(Revlscd Statutes, Chapter "a, sectio!
02), the councils In cities and the presi
dent and tho board Of trustees IN VII
iages are empowered to regulate TN
sale Of meat, poultry. hsh, butter
cheese, lard, vegetables and oil othe
provisions; to regulate the sale 0
bread and to prescribe lts quality; .
nroyide for the Inspection Of all article
Of food; to declare what shall con
stitute n nuisance and to abate sam
and to fine all who permit nuisance
to exist; to appoint board OF near
and prescribe its powers ana dut'es
no DO ALL ACTS AND Make AZ
REGIJIiATIONS TO PROMOIN
HEALTH OR no PREVENT DIN
EASE; to direct location and regu1a'
the management and construction {
hacking houses either within the hmi,
OF the corporation or within one aM
from its boundaries; to compel q
owner Of any grocery or any unwho'
some or nause0us place to cleanse al
abnte or remove same aud to regular
its location. Under the provisions
the same law. municipalities are on
powered to impose Anes. not exceedii
5000 for each Offense. or Imprisonment
not exceeding SIX months, for the VOL
tion Of any Of Its ordinances"
aAside from the specific provisions
the law, quoted above, the one pr
vision, empowering the municlpan
FRO DO ALL ACTS AND Make Al
REGULATIONS no PROMOI
HEALTH AND PREVENT DlsbAsl
ciyes ample authority for the local Of
cials to undertake the supervision al
systematic inspection OF those plac
In which food for human consumpt'
Ia either prepared, manufacture
stored or offered for sale Howev'
the slpedAc provisions Of the statu'
remove all doubt as to the limits
which the municipality may 90 IN
protection Of the health Of the peopl'
"Anlmal food 10 particularly Sussex
tible to bacterial action and to deco
position which II FASTENED BY XIII
and handling In filthy slaughter hou'
or by Improper refrigeration aud ct
age" =,
"MEAT FROM DISEASED A.
MAILS, TOO FREQUENTLY SLAUG
TDRED FOR HUMAN FOOD. NJ.
RE PRODUCTIVE OF WIDESPRE4
DIsEASN AMONG THOSE wv
CONSUME IT,"
.
'The oft repeated statement u
cooking will remove the poisonous pr
critics Of spoiled a,eat 10 not to os
lied upon."
"In view Of these facts, 1t Is the d
o. the health officials Of all municip
ties to establish such supervision
inspection a. will render impossible
maintenance Of unsanitary slaual
houses and packing houses, the XIII
OF diseased animals or tine SAFE