Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

vas condemned BY the department in |
lFctors ut the Union stock Yards
and destroyed under their supervision.
At retail markets. 1850 pounds Of
dressed meats: 24.15O pounds Of fsll.
and 3OS6 pounds of poultry. hams
and rabbits were condemned and de- |
stroye,l.
THE Commissioner has issued the |
following instructions TO the chief in.
spector ut the Union Stock Yards:
While actinomycosis Is usually
confined to the head, and may be said
In one sense to be localized disease,
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved. I believe 1t Is
safest and most practicable to con.
demn the entire carcass wherever the
electromagnetic absccss opens into the
mouth. pharynx. larynx or any part of
the digestive or respiratory tract; or
when the lymphatlc glands are involv-
cd; or where there are electromagnetic
tumOrs In the lungs: or when the lc.
sions have become gencralizcd, since
generalization In actinomycosis ap-
pears to run n very atypic course.
making the detection of all focl inside
the muscle very difficult: therefore.
the entire carcass Is TO be condemned.
"'1n cases where the actinomycotic
LESSONS are positively localized. the In
fcctcd part may bc cut away and the
remains of the carcass used
These instructions apply only to
''lumpy jaw" There may bc other
reasons why you should want TO con-
demn u carcass. and Il Is then mat
ter of Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate 10 con.
dcmn If YOU believe the animal to be
not lit for human food"
The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able OF any people with foreheads Is
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In a powerful article
written by him In the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how a care.
less community might tolerate mo.
nopoly Of some things. how It might
endure to have its transportation, for
instance, or It's electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps; but that 1t should tolerate a
monopoly Of the primal necessity OF
food is beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked saw.
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that, and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such a monstrous
condition Is our own.
From a thousand illustrations Of the
injuries We all suffer from this idiotiC
arrangement let US cite one.
There is no way Of Ting
disease to the human body surcr than
through infected meat tissue. Some
of the worst and most destructive ba'
GILL that prey upon mankind are COM
mon among tho animals he eats fol
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of 1t through
the human population. 1t is so com
mon among cows that the wise and
/
ilized milk. What IL hog cholera
among swine IL merely typhoid fever
In men. Trlchinea In hogs pois0ns
human beings. Roth these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than all these. ana more
deadly. Is another fact that Ia seldom
commented upon because 1t Is too ap
palllng to dwell much upon. What II
called "lumpy jaw" In cattle Ia simply
cancer. The germs of cancer are
communicable. Many cattle have
"lumpy jaw" Any animal will
"lumpy jaw" is unit for human
food.
This opens field that demands thu
Immediate attention Of the govern
ment. Cancer Ia the most terrible Ol
all diseases. After 1t has reached 4
certain stage Of development 1t Is ab
sOlutely incurable. Its progress Il
that stage may be without the pa
tents knowledge or suspicion. It'
advance beyond that stage canno
even be checked. 1t slays its victims
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increas,
Of this most terrible Of human af
hlctlOns has been something to alarm
us all. 1t was once rare; 1t now
threatens to become common. In tn,
Cincinnati hospital. In the year 1870
n. the number of cancerOus patients
was one in 5s7. In 1904 the number
was one In 273. In 1870, when til,
total population Of the city was PIG,
go, the number of cancer cases re
ported at all the institutions was AZ
in 1900, with total population o.
325,9O2, the number OF cancer case,
reported at all the institutions wa'
l9S, and in 1908, with about the same
population. the number was 2G7.
append the table that shows this as
tonshlng increase.
Here is a similar report from two
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
YORK.
Total No.
Year of patients. Cancer
1878. ................ 800 2.
1870. ........,... 1917 n
1880. .1,474 x
! 1881 AK o.