Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-20
Il Aims at the Lives, the Health and
the Pockets Of Chicago
Citizens.
Frightful Food Thrown Into This
City While the Government In
spectors Sit Supinely BY.

What kind of government inspection
have we been getting of late in the
matter of beef. pork and other food
products?
What sinister influence is at work to
poison the people of Chicago in the in.
terest of corporate monopoly?
II ii is the Beef Trust, the people
should drive it out of the State!
In one year the people of Chicago
would have served on their tables
1.141.3I6 pounds Of diseased meats
fish. poultry and vegetables II 1t were
not for the activity Of the city health
inspectors.
According to the report Of Dr.
Charles J. whalen, Health Commits.
sioner. the government inspectors have
been derelict in their work and for
years Chicago markets have been vend.
ing stuff that Is unfit to eat.
In one week. ending Nov. ~. this
IL what the city inspectors condemned
and destroyed:
Two hundred and eleven cattle. o..
$50 pounds: I'll hogs, 126.662 pounds;
forty sheep. 1.4lO pounds; three calves.
$50 pounds: fourteen quarters Of beef,
6.3ss pounds; total weight, $4,000
pounds.
Condemned and destroyed after pass.
Ing government inspection: Fourteen
80
cattle. 1.407 pounds; total weight, 1855
pounds.
Inspectors In the 'loop district" con.
demned and destroyed 1850 pounds
Of meats. fish, fruits and vegetables.
Three lots Of hams and bacon.
weighing 3.625 pounds. were condemn.
cd by the inspector Mt the wholesale
markets before 8 o'clock a. m. This
material had been sent to Chicago
from st. Louis and Omaha, having
been rejected there.
Suit has been entered against eight
markets for violating OF the ordinance
which forbids the hanging or exposing
Of dressed meats on the street.
DR.. Whalen sums up the results
achieved by his department from the
time city inspection was resumed as
follows:
Since Aug. Z the weekly condemna.
tons Of unit food have averaged 49,.
300 pounds Of meats, fish, poultry, etc,
and 23,lOO pounds Of fruit and vege.
tables. which, II maintained for the
year. would make an aggregate Of
7.lil.3l6 pounds Of meat, ETC., and Of
1901 200 pounds OF fruits and vege.
tables condemned and destroyed as un.
ut for human food.
The principal causes OF meat con.
demnation We're tuberculosis, "lumpy
Jaw" hog cholera, immaturity, and
emaclatlon: Of fish, saint and stale.
ness, and Of fruit and vegetables, rot.
tenness.
Under date of Nov. II the chief meat
inspector at the Union stock yards re.
ports to the director Of the laboratory
that "as'a result OF the activity Of the
city meat inspectors In condemnIng.
tanking. and destroying emaciated and
tuberculosis cattle In the coolers
after they had been passed by the gov.
eminent inspectors, the packers are adj.
vising shippers not to send such AMI.
mails into this market.
The condemned food has been found
not only in the stock yards. but In prI.
vate markets and the big cOld.stOrage
warehouses. 1t has been found in tran.
sit from other big meat packing cen.
tors and in rare instances already pre-.
pared for the table.
DIR. Whalen says the city has big
problem 10 crush out this immoral and
dangerous traffic, and he will resort to