Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-11-24
The illinois State Board of Health
Hits Both Of Them Hard in
Circular.
Duty of the City Administration with
Regard to Meat Inspection Is
Very Plain.

The new government law, rs every.
boSiy knows, does not provide for the
inspection of meat consumed In Chicago
and Illinois.
The strange apathy Of the Chicago
authorities In the matter Of Beef Trust
violations Of the law, Is arousing the
attention Of the entire country.
The flooding Of Chicago and the
state of Illinois with lumry jaw, tub.
CIRCULAR and cancerous beef Is causing
widespread Indignation.
The Illinois State Board Of Health
has just issued a strong circular con.
tanning recommendation to municipali.
ties concerning the supervision and In.
spection Of slaughter houses, packing
horses. etc.
The following extracts show how
hard the circular hits the city govern.
ment OF Chicago:
..rhe Illinois state Board Of Health.
BY special resolution, adopted at regu.
lar meeting, held in Chicago June 10th
and 2ist, 1905, urgently recommends
to the mayors and councils Of all cities
an. the presidents and boards Of trus-
tees Of all villages, and to all other
health officials In all parts Of the State.
the enactment and enforcement Of ordi.
nances providing for the supervision
and the regular and systematic inspec.
ton Of all slaughter houses. packing
houses, storage houses, markets, Gel.
lars and all other establishments used
for the preparation. manufacture. stor.
age or sale Of food intended for hu.
man consumption.
..rhe health Of thc people Is largely
dependent upon the purity. quality and
cleanliness Of their food and these
may he controlled and guaranteed to
the people only through the conscien.
tiois efforts Of health officials acting
under the powers conferred upon them
by the statutes.
1.-THE people Of each municipality
have the right to expect that the OH.
cials whom they have entrusted with
the enforcement Of the law. will give
them every possible protection provided
by the law. and the statutes Of the
state Of Illinois are 20 liberal In their
construction as to give to the munich
pality full power to control all Of those
things which may in any way effect the
health Of the people.
"Under the provisions Of an act to
provide for tho incorporation Of cities
and villages, approved April 10. 1872
(Revised Statutes, Chapter "a. Section
02), the councils In cities and the presi'
dent and the board Of trustees In VII
lagos are empowered to regulate the
sale Of meat. poultry, fish. butter
cheese, lard, vegetables and all Other
provisions; to regulate the sale Of
bread and to prescribe IT. quality; "a
provide for the inspection OF all articles
Of food; to declare what shall con
.st1tute a nuisance and to abate same
and to iine all who permit nuisance'
to exist; to appoint board Of health
and prescribe Ito powers and duties
no DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALI
REGULATIONS TO PROAO1T
HEALTH OR no PREVENT DIS
EASE; to direct location and REGULATE
the management and construction d
hacking houses either within the nmitl
Of the corporation or within one uSal'
from its boundaries; to compel TN
owner OF any grocery or any unwhole
some or nauseous place to cleanse am
abste or remove same and to REGULATE
ih location. Under the provisions o.
the same law. municipalities are en-
powered to Impose nnes, not exceeding
$500 for each offense. or Imprisonment
not exceeding six uiOnths, for the viola
ton Of any Of its ordinances"
aside from the specific provisions O
the law. quoted above. the one pro
vision. empowering the municipaht!
ITO DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALI
REGULATIONS no PROMOTE
HEALTH AND PREVENT DISEASE
elves ample authority for the local 9th
Gals to undertake the supervision AM
systematic inspection Of those place
In which food for human consumption
VECpotSup AhoooAo~s"sN>
stored or offered for sale. However
the specific provisions Of the statute
remove all doubt as to the limits I
which the municipality may 60 In tn
protection Of the health Of the people.
"Animal food 10 particularly suscel
tible to bacterial action and to decon
position which Ii fastened by KILN
and handling In filthy slaughter house
or by improper refrigeration and stol
age"
"MEAT FROM DISEASED AM
MAILS, TOO FREQUENTLY sIAAUGH
TERED FOR HUMAN FOOD. MA
BE PRODUCTIVE OF WIDESPREAD
DISEASE AMONG TIiOSE Wa'
CONSUME IT,"
1.-THE oft repeated statement ths
cooking will remove the poisonous pro-
critics Of spoiled meat il not to be n
He'd upon."
"In view Of these tacts. It IL the dut
o; the health oficiah Of all municipal
t,es to establish such supervision On
inspection - viii render imposaibls Il
malntenancs a unsanitary slaught'
Asasss and pacing oouses. ths killi1
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