Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-29

Tuberculosis Is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hindrance, 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.. r. ID. Dudley was adopt.
Cd, which provides that when a teacher
suspects that any child II affected with
the disease II shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools By the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will lie OK.
amlued by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam
ily physician present Mt the examlna-
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosls from meat must sufYer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mont reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosis beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public In served.
The statement that there arc 1900
cvnsumptives In 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 Is Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t In not contracted from impure air.
1t Ii contracted by eating bud meat
sold by sordid and conscienoelcss 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 saddened by the deaths
Of husbands, wives, fathers, m0therS
brothers, sisters, SONS and daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con-
sumption, @
Know who IL guilty!
There Ia a day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
tholr track until Europe as we'll III
America will be too hot to hold them
The Reef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But tho Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectors--Oaly II In al
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention Il
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicagt
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
ber %. 1905. speaks for itseif:
The city inspectors Mt the UniOr
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
8O03 pounds of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, havinl
passed government inspection ut thos'
places"
This shows the sort of government
inspection we have.
II few Of the governmental omis
sions are rectifed how many thous
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe ant
America are Mt this moment harbOrinl
| o,,ts ~ p,oot <,.o,,, <svhovo., lOclu m t<ln
The above report of the Health Com
missioner speaks OF meat hanging II
the coolers Of trust houses, with tubev
cular tumors trimmed out" ready b
be cut into steaks.
Speaking OF the $685.. 900 pounds o
food condemned In 1905 by Chicag
Health Department inspectors, DIR. {
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 g
says: One stands aghast at the crlml
nal cupidity which will induce men +
attempt to sell such dangerous foods Il
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is nov
In order to 90 a step farther and fin'
out who is responsible for this mora
0bliqutty.
att is well known that combina
tions Of the larger meat dealers hav
existed In the past to the end OF rails
ing the price Of food stuffs beyond th
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The putcry ha
always been In protest against the In
creased cost Of living, but here for tn
first time are the combinations whicl
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
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
LIGHT or PUBLIC DANGERS. Ever
In war, when all kinds OF brutality ar'
sanctioned, 1t 10 the height Of dis