Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-12

Is UcCOHllIS CpiuSuN'
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis 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
tuberculosis from attending school. a
report drafted by superintendent
Cooley and DR.. Il. 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 IRE notified the pupil will be ex-
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
Ike given permission to have their fam.
lily 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.
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 $1,000
consumptivcs I'm Chicago was made Mt
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 IL n Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordld and constituencies men
who think more Of dollars than they
do of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tuber.
culosis you know who to blame.
The homes saddcned by the deaths
Of husbands. wives, fathers. mothers,
brothers, sisters, sons and daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con.
sumption,
Know who Is guilty!
There is n day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe rs well as
America will be too hot to hold them
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectors-only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
-was still sufficient to call attention tC
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin OF OctO
Der %, 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the Unlor
Stock Yards condemned "FlVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
"They also condemned and destroyed
3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis ana Kansas City, having
passed government inspection ut thos'
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection We have.
II a few Of the governmental Omls
slons are rectified how many thous
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe an'
America are Mt this moment harbOrin,
cuts of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging II
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber
cular tumors trimmed out" ready t
be cut into steaks.
Speaking of the $685.. 900 pounds o
food condemned In 1905 by Chicag
Health Department inspectors, DIR. c
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED O.
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Commenting upon this condition
Continues Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine December %
says: 'One stands aghast at the crlml
nal cupidity which will induce men t
attempt to sell such dangerous foods
an unsuspectlng community. 1t Is no,
} In order to go step farther and fin
out who is responsible for this mora
ObliIuity.
lit Is well known that combinN
tions Of the larger meat dealers hav
existed in the past to the end Of rails
ing the price Of food stuffs beyond tn
point to which healthy cOmpetitio
would reduce them. The Outcry In
always been in protest against the II
creased cost Of living, but here for tn
first time are the combinations whic
control the food supply, brought into
direct relation to public health.
"'It Is high time that this matte
be taken out Of the class Of minor OF
fenscs AND THE DEALERS THEN
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
IN war; when all kinds of brutality ar
sanctioned, it Is the height of dl;
honOr-even murder--to poison tn
water supply Of a country. Is 1t an
better to poison the food supply? ]
Is time that the public mind shoul
develop conscience In this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health d.
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1905
1.-THE total amount of meats cor