Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-24
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that 1t Is Guilty Of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

was condemned by the department in |
spectors mt the Union stock Yards
and destroyed under their supervision. |
At retail markets. 1850 pounds Of
dressed meats: 24,15O pounds of fish.
anu 3.OS6 pounds Of poultry. hams
and rabbits were condemned and de-
strOyed.
"Thc Commissioner has issued the
Following instructions TO the chief in
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
"While actlnOmycosis Is usually
confined to the head, and may be said
In one sense to be localized disease.
ana while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved. l believe 1t Is
safest and most practicable to con.
demn the entire carcass wherever the
electromagnetic absccss opens into the
mouth. pharynx. larynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract; or
when the lymphatic glands are involv.
Cd; or where there are actinomycotic
tumors In the lungs: or when the lc-
sions have become generalizcd, since
generalization In actinomycosis ap-
pears to run u very atypic course.
making the detection of all fOci inside
tic muscle very difficult: therefore.
tho entire carcass Is to he condemned.
I'm cases where the actinomycotic
LESSONS are positively localized. the In
fected part may be cut away and the
remains of the carcass used.
"'Thcsc instructions apply only to
''lumpy Jaw" There may he other
reasons why YOU should want TO con-
denim carcass. and Il Is then a mat
ter of Judgment for you and your men.
But YOU should never hesitate To con.
denim II yon believe the animal to be
not 1T for human food"
The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able Of any people with forehends Is
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In powerful article
written by him In the Appeal to Rca.
son. iou can understand how care.
less community might tolerate mo.
nopoly Of some things, how It might
endure to have Its transportation. for
instance, or Its electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or are
lamps; but that 1t should tolerate a
monopoly Of the primal necessity Of
food Is beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked saw
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that, and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such monstrous
condition IL our own.
From n thousand illustrations Of the
injuries we all suffer from this idiotic
arrangement let us cite one.
There Is no way Of communicating
disease to the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Some
Of the worst and most destructive ba.
GILL that prey upon mankind are com.
mon among the animals he eats for
food. Cows have tuberculosis aud
spread vast quantities OF 1t through
the human population. 1t IL 80 com.
mon among cows that the wise and
the fOrewarned will use none but ster.
llized milk. What Is hog cholera"
among swine Is merely typhoid fever
In men. Trlchinea In hogs p0isons
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than all these, ana more
deadly, is another fact that Is seldom
commented upon because It is too ap.
palling to dwell much upon. What Is
called "lumpy jaw" In cattle In simply
cancer. The germs of cancer are
communicable. Many cattle have
'lumpy jaw" Any animal with
"lumpy jaw" is unit for human
food.
This opens a field that demands the
immediate attention OF the govern
ment. Cancer is the most terrible of
all diseases. After 1t has reached a
certain stage OF development 1t Is alb
solutely incurablc. Its progress to
that stage may be without the pa
tents knowledge or suspicion. Its
advance beyond that stage cannot
even be checked 1t Stays its victims
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increase
of this most terrible of human af-
dlctions has been something to alarm
us all. 1t was once rare; it now
threatens to become common. In the
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870
n, the number of cancerous patients
was one In 5s7. In 1904 the number
was one in 273, In 1870. when the
total population Of the city was 2l6,-
339 the number of cancer cases re-
ported at all the institutions was AZ.
in 1900, with total population of
325,9O2. the number of cancer cases
reported Mt all the institutions was
1893, and in 1908, with about the same
population, the number was 2G7. l
append the table that shows this as
tonishing increase.
Here Is n similar report from two
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
YORK.
Total No.
Year. of patients. Cancer.