Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-26


The Beef Trust products afflicted with
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
from attending school. a
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DR.. +. ID. Dudley was adopt
ed, which provides that when 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 are notified the pupil will he ex-
nmincd 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 $1,000
consumptives In Chicago was made Mt
the annual meeting of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman of the tuberculosis commit.
tee. DR.. 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 sordid and constituencies 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 snddencd by the death,
Of husbands, wives, fathers, mothers
brothers, sisters, sons and daughters.
The people poverty stricken by con
sumption,
Know who IL guilty!
There Is u day Of reckoning for thes'
barons Of blood and tyrants Of til,
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upoi
their track until Europe rs well n
America will be too hot to hold them
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of cit,
Of Chicago inspectors-only II In nj
although now strangely discontinue,
was still sufficient to call attention t
horrible facts.
The following from the Chlcag
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
ber 2S, 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the Unlo
Stock Yards condemned "FIvE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUI
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED Il,
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"Ihey also condemned and destroye
3,O03 pounds of cut meats shipped fror
st. Louis and Kansas City, havin
passed government inspection at thos
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
IL Il few Of the governmental omls
slons are rectlned how many thOus
ands are not?
JJrxy ,,opu homno Ia LS,pn,o an
America are Mt this moment hnrborin
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Con
missioner speaks Of meat hanging i
the coolers Of trust houses, with tubei
cular tumors trimmed out" ready I
be cut into steaks.
Speaking of the 3,035.00O pounds @
food condemned In 1905 by Chlcag
Health Department inspectors, Dr. {
j. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED o.
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Commenting upon this conditio
| Continues Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine December 2:
says: 'One stands aghast ut the Grim
nal cupldity which will induce men I
attempt to sell such dangerous foods I
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is no'
In order to go n step farther and fin
out who Is responsible for this NOR,
obllquity.
"'It Is we'll known that combini
tlons of the larger meat dealers hay
existed In the past to the end Of raj
lng the price Of food stuffs beyond I'll
point to which healthy competitlo
would reduce them. The Outcry Ia
always been in protest against the II
creased cost of living, but here for I'll
first time are the combinations whlc
control the food supply, brought into
direct relation to public health.
"It Is high time that this matte
be taken out of the class of minor o
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEN
SELNES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
Light OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
IN war, when all kinds Of brutality M
sanctioned, it Is the height Of dl
honor-even murder--to poison IL
water supply of n country. Is 1t an
better to poison the food supply?
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