Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-04

Tuberculosis is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis can he sold without let or
lindrance, when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
tle Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DIR. u. d. Dudley was adopt.
cd, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child is affected with
the disease Il shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will Ike ex.
amincd by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
ily physician present nt the examine.
don.
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.
mcnt inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosIs beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public In served.
The statement that there are $1,000
consumptives In Chicago was made ut
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit.
tee. DIR. Sachs spoke. urging drastic
action by the Board Of Health to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis Ia a Beef disease.
1t IL not hereditary.
II Ii not contracted from impure dir.
| It 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.
culoais you know who to blame.
The homes saddened by the deaths
Of husbands. wives, fathers, mothers,
brothers. sisters. sons and daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con.
sumption,
Know who II guilty!
There II a day OF reckoning for these
barons Of blood nnd tyrants Of the
Trust!
Tho Chicago Eagle will keep upor
their track until Europe NJ we'll M
America will he too hot To hold them
The Beef Trust may control govern
mcnt inspection.
But the insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectors--Only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention Il
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of OctO
ber %, 1906. speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors ut the Unior
Stock Yards condemned "FIvE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
'"Thcy also condemned and destroyed
3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
1t. Louis and Kansas City, havine
passed government inspection at those
places"
This shows the sort Of government,
inspection we have.
IL Il few Of the governmental omis
sions are rectlhed how many thOus
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe ant
America are ut this moment harbOrinl
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging II
the coolers Of trust houses. with tuber
cular tumors trimmed out" ready L
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3,035, 600 pounds OF
food condemned In 1906 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. G
]. Whalen, Health Commissioner. say,
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED on
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.'
commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan)