Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-10
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of Il.
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

tuberculosis ie becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afnicted with
tuberculosis can he 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 Or. Z. u. Dudley was adopt.
I'd. which provides that when a 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 be ex.
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
lily physician present at the examina.
tion.
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 In served.
The statement that there are $1,000
consumptives In Chicago was made at
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 IL a Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t is not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid and conscienceless men
who think more OF dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any " your relatives have tuber.
culosls you know who to blame.
The homes saddened 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 is day of reckoning for these
barons OF blood and tyrants Of the
Trust.
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe as well as
America will be too hot To hold them
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago lnspectors-only IL In all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention e
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
Der 2s. 1906. speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at 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 Bl
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"They also condemned and destroye,
3,O83 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City. havinI
passed government inspection at thos
places"
This shows the sort Of governmen
inspection We have.
II a few Of the governmental omis
sions are rectified how many thous
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe an
America are Mt this moment harborin
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Con
missioner speaks Of meat hanging Il
the coolers Of trust houses. with tubel
cular tumors trimmed OUT ready
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 1895, 900 pounds q
food condemned in 1905 by Chicag
Health Department inspectors, DIR. {
]. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
In his annual report
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED o.
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
commenting upon this conditio
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan,
American Medicine December .:
says: 'One stands aghast at the Grim
nal cupIdity which will induce men
attempt TO sell such dangerous foods
an unsuspecting community. II Is no.
In order 10 60 a step farther and fin
out who Is responsible for this mors
obliqulty.
1T is well known that combni
tIons Of the larger meat dealers hay
existed In the past to the end Of raj,
Ing the price Of food stuffs beyond III
point 20 which healthy cOmpetltlo
would reduce them. The outcry ha
always been in protest against the IL
creased cost of living, but here for III
first time are the combinations whic
control the food supply, brought into
direct relation TO public health.
1T is high time that this matte
be taken out Of the class Of minor o
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEN
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL.
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
u war, when all kinds Of brutality ar
sanctioned II Is the height Of dl.
Lonor-eyen murder-to poison tn
water supply Of country. Is it an
better 10 poison the food supply? ]
n time that the public mind shoul
develop a conscience In this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosi
read the following from the Health DC
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1900
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