Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-23
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tuniN to Get All It Wants
Of Il.
Health Department Finds Cattle in
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

TubcrcUiuris In ircoming epidemic.
THE lavf Trust i'rSlucts afflicted With |
tuisrct,lOsis Gun he sold without let or
wlcn past "ins,Ws'tlOn.'
The school management committee of
the Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DR.. T.. d. Dudley was adopt
ed, which provides that when a teacher
suspects that any child is affected with
tho 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 be ex.
amined by medical inspectors OF the
child study department. Parents Will
be given permission to have their fam
ily physician present mt the examina-
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mont reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosls beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public Ii served.
The statement that there are $4,000
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 conscicnceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do OF human lives.
| II any Of your relatives have tubcr.
cuiosis you know who to blame.
The homes saddcncd by the deaths
IL husbands, wives, fathers, mothers,
brothers. sisters, sons ana daughters,
The people I'ovcrty stricken by con-
SUM- l,tlon.
Know who II guilty!
There Ii n iny Of reckoning Tor these
ia,ro,,s Of blood ani tyrnntA Of the
Trust!
The Chicas, Eaa,c viii keep upoi
their tract: until Europe ~ we'll III
America will bc too h,t to hold t!Isir'
Tho Beef Trus. may control govern
ment inspection.
hut tho Insignificant number Of cit!
Of Chicago inspcctors.-0nly II In nj
although now strangely discontinued
! was still sufficient to call attention (,
: horrible facts.
The following from the Chicng'
Health Department Bulletin Of OctO
bcr %. 1906, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors ut the Uniol
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
, WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
; lOF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
5 AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED ~
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
; 'They also condemned and dcstroye
> 3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped fror
! st. Louis una Kansas City, havin
! passed government inspection at thOs
: places"
This shows the sort Of government
' inspection we have.
> II a few Of the governmental omi'
sions are rectlAed how many thOu'
= ands IRE not?
J. How many homes In Europe an
: America are at this moment harborln
cuts OF meat from tuberculosis cattle
y The above report Of the Health Con
u missioner speaks Of meat hanging
J. the coolers Of trust houses, with tube
J. cular tumors "trimmed out" ready
. be cut into steaks.
3 Speaking Of the $685.. 900 pounds {
u food condemned In 1905 by ChicaG
" Health Department inspectors, DIR.
r ]. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
r In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF I'll
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED O
d ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
Commenting upon this condltiO
II Continues Commissioner Whelan
American Medicine December
% says; 'One stands aghast at the Grim
l. nal cupidity which will induce men
attempt to sell such dangerous foods
n an unsuspecting community. 1t IL no
he In order to go step farther and fiI
out who Is responsible for this NOR
n obliqulty.
ut Is well known that cOmbln
tlons Of the larger meat dealers ha'
existed In the past to the end OF raj
" ing the price of food stuffs beyond Il
point to which healthy competitit
= would reduce them. The Outcry HI
|. always been In protest against the !
| creased cost Of living. but here eor h
first time are the combinations whi'
| control the food supply, brought into
direct relation to public health.
Ii LIT IL high time That this matt
| Ne taken out IT the class of minor 4
! fcnses AND THE DEALERS THE.
SELVES LOOKED UrON IN TIL
Il LIGHT or PUBLIC DANGERS. Ey,
j. la war, when all kinds II brutality Il
sanctioned. II Is the height Of Il
hlnDr--CvCn mu,rlrr-to poison Z
water supply Of II country. IL 1t al
| better to poison the food supply?
II tine that the public mind shOu
| develop n conscience In this direction.
| Speaking of Beef Trust tuberculot
read the following from the Health !
/ | nortment Rulletin NOyember 4. 100