Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-01

that inspection by the city Of all food
products n Of untold value. not only
from a financial but from q sanitary
and hygienic standpoint"
'.rhe following will show how neces.
sary city inspection 10 at the Union
Stock Yards:
"The city meat inspectors have con.
tiemned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
ERNMENT INSPECTIONS:
"l26 cattle. cause, actinOmycosis.
''07 cattle, cause, einaciatioil.
"2i cattle, cause, tuberculosis. evl.
dence Of disease ha, Ing been trimmed
out.
40 cattle. cause, 'downers.'
"27 sheep. cause, pneumonia.
20 hogs, cause, pyaemia and tuberc,i.
losta
"47.720 pounds Of cut meats shipped
from Ct. Louis, Omaha. ETC., for can.
ming. This meat was sour and shiny"
The following from the Bulletin Of
the Health Department for month Of
May: "The meat inspectors ut the
stockyards condemned and destroyed q
total Of 4Si.705 pounds Of beef, pork.
veal and mutton"
The Reef Trust II still causing the
deaths Of thousands Of people by the
selling Of diseased meat.
No matter what few experts
found or what some business associa.
lions" saw In their ''investiga lions. -
the fact remains that the Beef Trust
Ia still ut the old stand.
A trust that will sell rotten, diseased
meat to people will not stop ut any.
thing To deceive the public.
Every day one reads In the daily pa.
pers about what some wise expert
has to shy about the awful untruths
told about the poor, innocent packers.
But the ''poor. innocent packers
don't seem to have any experts" writ
Ing for tho Bulletin Of the Chicago
Health department. for In Its report
for the week ending July Z. 1900. Il
says that "the inspectors ut the Unio,
stockyards condemned and destroyed q
total Of l5l.lS8 pounds Of UNIT
meats"
Oh, yea; the Reef Trust is being per
secuted: l6l.l88 pounds Of rotten. dis
eased meat condemned In one week by
a mere handful Of inspectors How
much diseased meat gets out Of thu
yards the Lord only knows!
hut II l5l.180 pounds Of diseased
meat IL condemned by few inspectors
THE reader can easily imagine how much
unit food is placed on the market.
Secretary Wilson says that the gov
ernment will enforce the meat bill IL
Its entirety.
Now that may he all right In Its way
but the fact remains that government
inspection has been failure In thu
past.
And tho only relief that the public
can hope for Ia rigid investigation by
the Illinois Legislature.
The Legislature must investigate th''
awful trust, for the health Of the I'eO
pie Of Chicago, Illinois and the whols
country Ia ut stake.
The eyes Of the whole country vii
he turned on the Illinois Legislators
and II they fall to do their duty II
protecting the lives OF the nation they
will he branded a. towards.
The Illinois Legislature must do Ii
duty and stop the worst menace to Oul
public health that We have got.
The beef Trust can now laugh at thu
law. but there II day OF. reckoning
coming.
The Illinois Legislature has a duty
TO perform. and It must do Il.
The Beef Trust must be stopped!
Remembering that 1t was always tn
habit to use the carcases of cancerou
or lumpy jawed cattle after the can
GERS were cut out, the public Is prob
ably getting a fuller dose 1T lump
jawed cattle for food than ever. o.
the very day that the city discontinue
It's inspection and condemnation, tn
Commissioner of Health Of Chicago Il
sued the following remarkable instruC
lions In his bulletin Of December 81
1905:
'"rhe Commissioner has issued til
following instructions to the chief In
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
"'Whlle ectlnOmycOsls Ia usual
confined to the head, and may be sal
In one sense to be localixed diseas,
and while some inspectors condemn