Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

What kind of government inspection
have we been getting of late In the
matter of beef. pork and other food
products?
What sinister influence Is at work to
poison the people of Chicago In the in
terest of corporate monopoly?
IL IL is the Beef Trust. the people
should drive il out of the State.
In one year the people of Chicago
would have served on their tables
1.l41.31G pounds of diseased meats.
fish. poultry and vegetables IL 1t were
not for the activity of the city health
inspectors.
According to the report of DR..
Charles J. Whalen. Health Commits
sioner. the government inspectors have
been derelict in their work and for
years Chicago markets have been vend.
ing stun that Is unfit to eat.
In one week. ending Nov. 1S. this
Is what the city inspectors condemned
and destroyed:
Two hundred and eleven cattle. o..
$50 pounds: III hogs, 128.G62 pounds;
forty sheep. 1.41O pounds; three calves.
$50 pounds: fourteen quarters Of beef.
6,3Ss pounds; total weight, $4,000
pounds.
Condemned and destroyed after pass
ing government Inspections: Fourteen
quarters Of beef. G.3sS pounds; four
cattle. 1.407 pounds; total weight, 1855
pounds.
Inspectors in the loop district" con.
demned and destroyed 1850 pounds
Of meats. fish, fruits and vegetables.
Three lots Of hams and bacon.
weighing 1925 pounds. were condemn.
ell by the inspector ut the wholesale
markets before 8 o'clock a. m. This
material had been sent to Chicago
from st. Louis and Omaha, having
been rejected there.
Suit has been entered against eight
markets for violating OF the ordinance
which forbids the hanging or exposing
Of dressed meats on the street.
DR.. Whalen sums up the results
achieved by his department from the
time city inspection was resumed as
follows:
Since Aug. Z the weekly condemna.
tons Of unfit food have averaged 1877.
300 pounds Of meats. fish, poultry, etc,
and 23,1OO pounds Of fruit and vege.
tables. which. II maintained for the
year, would make IN aggregate OF
S,l4I.3I6 pounds Of meat. ETC., and OF
1901. 200 pounds Of fruits and vege
tables condemned and destroyed as un'
ut for human food.
The principal causes OF meat con
demnation We're tuberculosis, "lumpy
Jaw" hog cholera, immaturity. md
emacIatiOn: OF fish, "talnt" and stale
ness, and of fruit and vegetables, rot
tenness.
Under date of Nov. II the chief mea
inspector ut the Union stock yards re
ports to the director OF the labOrator!
that "as result of the activity Of til,
city meat inspectors In condemnlng
tanking, and destroying emaciated an,
tuberculosis cattle In the coolers
after they had been passed by the gov
eminent inspectors, the packers are nd
vlsing shippers not to send such mi
mails into this market.
The condemned food has been foun,
not only In the stock yards. but In pri
vate markets and the big cold.storag
warehouses. 1t has been found IN tran
sit from other big meat packing cen
tors and In rare instances already pre-
pared for the table.
DIR. Whalen says the city has bi
problem TO crush out this immoral an
dangerous traffic, and he will resort I
every legal resource to bring his cru
SADIE to a successful end.
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The beef trust Is aiming to contro
the next legislature.
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or what use is the Illinois Pur
Food Law. when millions of chicken,
turkeys and geese are kept In col
storage within the State for years