Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-20
The illinois State Board Of Health
Hits Both Of Them Hard in
Circular.
Duty Of the City Administration with
Regard to Meat Inspection Is
Very Plain.

The new government law. MS every.
euly knows, does not provide for the
inspection of meat consumed In Chicago
aud Illinois.
The strange apathy Of the Chicago
authorities In the matter Of Beef Trust
violations Of the law, IL arousing the
attention Of the entire country.
The flooding Of Chicago and the
State OF Illinois with lumry Jaw. tub.
CIRCULAR and cancerous beef Is. causing
widespread indignation.
TIE Illinois State Board Of Health
has Just Issued q strong circular con.
eainlng Recommendation to municlpali.
tles concerning the supervision and In.
pection Of slaughter houses packing
houses, etc.
The following extracts show how
hard the circular hits the city govern.
ment Of Chicago:
'.rhe Illinois state Board Of Health,
by special resolution. adopted at rcgu.
lar meeting, held In Chicago June 10th
and 2ist, 1905. urgently recommends
70 the mayors and councils Of all cities
anu the presidents and boards Of trus.
te0 Of all villages. and to all other
health officials In all parts Of the State,
the enactment and enforcement Of Ortli'
nances providing for the supervision
and the regular and Systematic inspec.
ton II all slaughter houses, packing
houses, storage houses, markets. col
lars and all other establishment used
Tor the preparation, manufacture. stOr'
age or sale Of food Intended for hu'
man consumption.
'.rhe health Of the people Il largely
dependent upon the purity, quality and
cleanliness Of their food and these
may be controlled and guaranteed to
the people only through the conscien'
tio,s efforts Of health officials acting
under the powers conferred upon thenl
by the statutes.
'.Thc people " each municipality
have the right to expect that the OIL
Gals whom they have entrusted with
the enforcement Of tho law, will give
them every possible protection provided
by the law. and the statutes Of the
State Of Illinois are 20 liberal In their
construction ~ to give to the munich
pallty full power to control all Of those
things which may In any way effect the
Aeslth Of the people.
"Unler the provisions Of an act to
provide 10, the incorporation Of cities
and villages, approved April 10. 1872.
(Rcvised Statutes, Chapter -. Section
62), tho councils In cities and the presl.
dent and the board Of trustees In VII.
lagos are empowered to regulate the
sale Of meat. poultry. fab, butter,
cheese. lard, vegetables and oil other
provisions; to regulate the sale OF
bread and to prescribe its quality; to
provide for the inspection Of all articles
of food; to declare what shall con.
stitute nuisance aud to abate same
and to fine all who permit nuisances
to exist; to appoint board Of health
and prescribe Its powers and duties ;
no DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALL.
REGULATIONS no PROMOTE
HEALTH Or no PREVENT Dis
EASE; to direct location and regulate
the management and construction Of
hacking houses either within the limits
Of the corporation or within ono mile
from its boundaries; to compel the
owner Of any grocery or any unwhOle-
some or nause0us place to cleanse and
abate or remove same and to regulate
its location. Under the provisions Of
the same law, municipalities are em.
powered 10 impose fines, not exceeding
500 for each. offense. or imprisonment,
not exceeding six months, for the viola.
ton Of any Of its ordinances"
aside from the specific provisions Of
the law. quoted above. the one pro.
vision. empowering the municipality
TO DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALI.
REGULATIONS no PROMOTE
HEALTH AND PREVENT DISHASE.'
0ives ample authority for the local on
cials to undertake the supervision and
systematic inspection Of those places
In which food for human consumption
% either prepared, manufactured.
stored or offered for sale However,
the specific provisions OF the statutes
remove all doubt 40 to the limits to
which the municipality may 60 In the
protection Of the health Of the people"
.
animal food Ia particularly suscep.
tlble to bacterial action and to decom-
position which IL FASTENED by killing
and handling In filthy slaughter houses
or by improper refrigeration and stor-
age"
"ME4lV FROM DISEASED AM.
MAILS. TOO FREQUENTLY sIAAUGH'
TEHED NOR HUMAN FOOD. MAY
PIE PRODUCTIVE OF WIDESPREAD
DISEASE AMONG THOSE WHO
CONSUME IT,"
.rhe oft repeated statement that
cooking will remove the poisonous prop.
critics of spoiled meat Is not to DO re-
lied upon"
"In view Of these facts. 1t Ia the duty
O, the health officials of all municipali.
ties to establish such supervision and
Inspection as will render impossible the
maintenance Of unsanitary slaughter
houses and packing houses, the killing
q diseased animals or the sale Of