Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-29
BEEF TRUST WARNING.
The Chicago Health Department Tells the
Public that Lumpy Jaw Beef Causes
Appendicitis.
The Chicago Eagle Has Made this
Contention for a Year and
Is Upheld.

The Health Department Of the city
Of Chicago has finally upheld the con.
tention Of The Chicago Eagle. main.
tained for over year. that lumpy jaw
beef sold by Chicago packers to con.
sumers after the local ulcers had been
cut away, was the cause Of append.
citis.
In a bulletin Just issued by Commis.
sioner Of Health Charles J. Whalen,
the following warning to the public
appears:
In its report to the council Of the
Chicago Medical Society last July, the
Committee Of the Society. appointed to
examine into the sutiiciency Of the "ln.
structions to Meat Inspectors" Of the
Health Department, with reference to
the protection OF the health Of the con.
sumer and Of the public health, said,
% to actinomycosis. or "lumpy jaw:"
THE Chicago regulations are distinctly
more severe than those OF other coun.
tries. The committee holds
that the regulations as to condemnation
for abscesses opening into the digestive
or respiratory tract are unnecessarily
severe In the absence OF secondary
symptoms. Otherwise the rules were
approved"
The results Of study Of actinomyco-
sis In the human being and In animals,
by the path0logists OF the Department
Laboratories, had led the commission.
or to supplement the original instruc-
tons concerning the inspection OF
"iumpy jaw" cattle, with a special or.
der. reading as follows:
while actinomycosiss Is usually con-
aned to the head, and may be said, In
one sense, to be localized disease, and
while some inspectors condemn the part
involved, l believe It IL safest and most
practicable 10 condemn the entire car.
caas whenever the actlnomycOtic OBJ.
scess opens into the mouth, pharynx,
larypx, or any part Of the digestive or
respiratory tract or when the lymphat.
ic glands are involved; or where there
are actinomycotlc tumors in the lungs
or where the LESSONS have become gen,
eralized, since generalization In acti'
nOmycosis appears to run II very atypic
course, making the detection of all fOci
inside the muscle very difficult. There.
fore, the entire carcass is to be con
demned.
in cases where the actinomycotlc
LESSONS are positively localized, the in
fected part may be cut away and the
remainder Of the carcass used.
These instructions apply only to
'lumpy jaw There may be other rea-
sons why You should want to condemn
a carcass, and II is then matter OF
Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate II You
believe the animal 10 be not tit for
human food"
That the Departments regulations,
based upon the pathOlog!c study re.
ferred 10, are not unnecessarily Sc.
we're" receives additional proof in u
recent address aud discussion before
the Medical Society of London, Eng,
reported in the Lancet OF October IL,
inst. page 1867. The subject OF the
address was actinomycOsls as al ex-
citant OF appendicitis, and the facts
adduccd certainly indicate one probable
cause OF the Increase OF the latter dis.
appendicitis.
The essaylst, i. II. kelloch, first
poiuted out how much more frequently
actiIomycosis was recognized since
more modern methods OF examination
had been emplOyed'-as In the studies
OF the Chicago Departments patholo.
gists. The affection was formerly be-
lieyed to attack the jaws, the liver
and the lungs almost exclusively in
persons whose lives were spent in the
country; II was now often recognized In
other parts Of the body or In town
dwel.ers. The star or ray formation
was not always present, and its alb.
seDce must frequently have led to a
segatiye diagnosis when the affection
might have been recognized by proper
staining. As the fungus or strep;o-