Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-08
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.

honor--even murder--to poison the
water supply Of q country. Is 1t any
better to poison the food supply7 It
Is time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health De-
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1905 /:
"rhe total amount of meats con.
demned during the period was 1.3i3, 3,343
pounds. or the principal causes Of
condemnation. s. PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, IL per cent for
actinomycosis-lumpy jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
Health Department Bulletin, Dec. o.
1905: "a total Of 14700O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
during the past week) under the su.
pervlsion of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This in
cludcs 4,DS3 pounds Of government In.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning
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Health Department Bulletin, Novem.
ber II. 1905:
although the condemnation and dc.
structlon Of food supplies unfit for
human consumption during the past
three months-since the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
by order Of the CommissiOner--have
reached immense proportions, much un.
fit food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats as show gross
path0loglc conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa.
cllities for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
| "The Union Stock Yards city inspec-
tors condemned ana destroyed 30 parts
OF beef carcasses. 3 hogs and o cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN. PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"rhc total stock yards condemnations
amounted to 17G.sOS pounds"
"Parts of beef carcasses !"
In other words It has been and IL
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumors ana let tho rest Of
the carcass 20 to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
10, 1905:
"rhe department has made a new
ruling In regard to 'lumpy jaw OF
actinomycOtic animals. Hereafter all
animals that show, on pOst.mortem
examination, a degeneration of the
lesion, with cavity formation, contain.
Ing pus, will be condemned and dc.
stroyed.
Heretofore only those with gen.
eral infection We're destroyed
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Health Department Bulletin, Nov.
30, 1905:
"Stockyards inspection of meats for
Chicago retail markets was resumed
by order Of the Commissioner OF
Health on Aug. Z, ult., with two dc.
partment inspectors employed. On
Oct. Z three additional inspectors were
put to work, and Oct 10 authority
was given by the Finance COMMITTEES
Of the city council for the employ.
ment Of six more.
"Between Aug. Z and Nov. 80 a
grand total of 2.7S1,1N pounds Of
food supplies were condemned and de-
stroyed as unwh0lesome, diseased or
otherwise unfit for human food"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
10, 1906:
Following Is q summary Of unfit
food condemned and destroyed during
the week:
"At the Union Stock Yards-292 cat
tie, weight l52,5O0 pounds; 3G2 hogs,
weight 5s,s3s pounds; Is calves,
weight Gl5 pounds; IL sheep, weight
255 pounds; 1918 pounds cut meats.
Total, 231. $50 pounds.
AT city retail markets--1S, 900
pounds of fish; 80 calves, 4 hogs, g.
300 pounds; 2 cattle, l sheep, 033
pounds of poultry and dressed meats
and vegetables, 1,481 pounds. Total,
2l,1l4 pounds.
Aggregate condemnatiOns of unfit
food during the week, 252, ,444
pounds"
AlSA
The Beef Trust will be Investigated
by the next Legislature.
And what showing up there will
be!
The investigation Of the insurance
companies by the New York Legisla.
ture will not be a circumstance to 1t.
Chicago's multi-milllOnaires grown
rich selling disease and poison to the
people will get their just dues then.
The Chicago Newspaper Trust cam
not save them.
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The Eagle will keep up Its fight on
the cattle ana packing people until the
sale of animals afflicted with cancer
At