Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-04-07

The Beef Trust products afflicted with
can be sold without let or
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 DIR. 4. 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.
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam
lily physician present ut 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 IL served.
The statement that there are $4,000
consumptives In Chicago was made at
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman of the tuberculosis commit
tee. DIR. Sachs spoke. urging drastic
action by the Board Of Health to stamp
out the disease.
tuberculosis Is Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t IL not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid and conscienceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
If any Of your relatives have tuber.
culosis you know who to blame.
The homes saddcncd by the deaths
OF husbands. wives, fathers. mothers.
brothers, sisters. sons ana daughters.
The people poverty stricken by con-
sumption,
Know who Is guilty!
There IL n day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their tract: until Europe rs we'll as
America will be too hot to hold them.
The Beef Trust mny control govern.
ment inspection.
But tho Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectOrs--Only II In nll
although now strangely discontinued
WIS still sufficient to call attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo.
ber %, 1905. speaks for itself:
The city inspectors ut the Union
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT.
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT,
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
'"rhey also condemned and destroyed
3003 pounds of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection at those
places"
This shows the sort of government
inspection we have.
II a few Of the governmental Omis.
slons are rectliied how many thous
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are ut this moment harbOring
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging In
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber'
cular tumors "trlmmed OUT ready to
he cut into steaks.
Speaking OF the $685. 900 pounds OF
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. G.
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED on
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine December %
says: 'One stands aghast Mt the crlmi
nal cupidity which will induce men tc
attempt to sell such dangerous foods tC
an unsuspectlng community. 1t Is now
In order to go step farther ana find
out who Is responsible for this mora
Obllqulty.
lit Is well known that cOmblna
tl0ns Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails
Ing the price Of food stuffs beyond the
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The Outcry has
always been In protest against the In
creased cost of living but here for the
first time are the combinations whicl
control the food supply, brought into Q
direct relation to public health.
"'It Is high time that this matter
be taken out Of the class OF minor of
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Ever
In war, when all kinds Of brutality arc
sanctioned, 1t Is the height Of dis
honor-even murder-tO poison thu
water supply of country. Is 1t any
better to poison the food supply? II
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