Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-04-14
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of Il.
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
cul0sis Trimmed Out.

tuberculosis Is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hindrance, 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 DR.. +. ID. Dudley was adopt
cd, which provides that when n 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 IRE notified the pupil will he ex-
amined by medical inspectors of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam
lily physician present at the examine
ton.
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.
culosis beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public Is served.
The statement that there are $4,000
consumptivcs 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 Is n Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordld and consclenceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tuber.
culosis you know who to blame.
The homes snddcncd by the deaths
Of husbands. wives, fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters, sons ana daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con.
sumption,
Know who Is guilty!
There Ii a day of reckoning for these
barpns Of blood and tyrants Of the
/ Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe as well nj
America will he too hot to hold them
The Beef Trust mny control govern
ment inspection.
But the insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago nspcctors--only II In nj
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention t.
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicag'
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
ber %, 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors ut the Uniol
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
! OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED Il,
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"rhey also condemned and destroye'
,, 3O03 pounds of cut meats shipped frou
st. Louis and Kansas City, havin
passed government inspection at thos
places"
This shows the sort of government
inspection we have.
II a few Of the governmental omls
sions are rcctified how many thous
: ands are not?
How many homes In Europe nm
. | A A,naptou o,n ot tI,ts ,nnu,n,,t I'm n
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Con
missioner speaks Of meat hanging i
i the coolers Of trust houses. with tubel
: cular tumOrs trimmed out" ready I
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 1896. 900 pounds q
. food condemned In 1905 by Chicag
I Health Department inspectors, DIR. {
: ]. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
: In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED o.
d ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Commenting upon this condltio
i Continues Commissioner Whelan,
American Medicine December g
Q says: One stands aghast at the Grim
!. nal cupldity which will induce men I
attempt to sell such dangerous foods
n an unsuspectlng community. 1t Is nO'
Q In order to go step farther and fin
out who Is responsible for this NOR,
l. ObliQuity.
"'It Is well known that cOmbin,
tlons Of the larger meat dealers hay
existed in the past to the end Of raj
u ing the price of food stuffs beyond IL
point to which healthy competitlo
: would reduce them. The Outcry Ia
/. always been In protest against the Il
| creased cost of living, but here for IL
| first time are the combinations whiC
| control the food supply, brought into
| direct relation to public health.
| "It Is high time that this matte
be taken ont Of the class of minor o
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEN
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
IN war, when all kinds Of brutality al
sanctioned, 1t Is the height of dl
hOnor--even murder-tO poison Il
water supply of country. Is 1t an
better to poison the food supply?
Is time that the public mind shOul
develop conscience In this direction
III Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculOs
read the following from the Health d
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1907
III "The total amount Of meats col