Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-17

was condemned BY the department In.
spcctOrs at the Union stock Yards
and destroyed under their supervision.
At retail markets. 3.SS0 pounds Of
dressed meats; -. 100 pounds of fish.
AMI 3.OS6 pounds of poultry. hams
and rabbits were condemned and de.
stroyed.
"rhc Commissioner has issued the
following instructions to the chief in.
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
"While actinomycOsis Is usually
confined to the head, and may be said
In one sense to be q localized disease.
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved. I believe 1t Is
safest and most practicable TO con.
denim the entire carcass wherever the
actlnOmycotic abscess opens into the
mouth, pharynx. larynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract: or
when the lymphntic glands nre involv-
cd; or where there are nctinomycotic
tumOrs In the lungs; or when the le-
siOns have become generalizcd. since
generalization In actinomycosis mp
pears to run n very atypic course.
making the detection of all foci inside
the muscle very difficult: therefore,
the entire carcass Is to be condemned.
"'fn eases where the electromagnetic
LESSONS are positively localized. the In
fcctcd part may be cut away and the
remains of the carcass used.
"'Thcsc instructions apply only to
''lumpy Jaw" There may he other
reasons why you should want TO con.
demn Il carcass. and Il Is then a mat
ter Of judgment for you and your men.
But YOU should never hesitate to con.
denim II YOU believe the animal to bc
not fit for human food"
The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able Of any people with forcheads ID
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In a powerful article
written by him In the Appeal to Rca'
son. You can understand how a care
less community might tolerate mo
nopoly Of some things, how It might
endure to have Its transportation, fol
instance, or It's electric light, control
led by one ownership, for men Cur
live without sleeping cars or art
lamps; but that 1t should tolerate 9
monopoly Of the primal necessity o.
food Is beyond comprehension ani
without precedent. Even naked sav
ages have uniformly been too wis'
for that. and the only nation that ha,
ever submitted to such a monstr0ul
condition IL our own.
From a thousand illustrations of thu
Injuries we all suffer from this idioti'
arrangement let us cite one.
There Is no way of communicating
disease to the human body surer thar
through infected meat tissue. Som
of the worst and most destructive ba
GILL that prey upon mankind are com
mon among the animals he eats 70
food. Cows have tuberculosis an'
spread vast quantities Of 1t througl
the human population. 1t is so com
mon among cows that tho wise ant
the forewarned will use none but stcr
ilized milk. What Is "hog cholera
among swine Ia merely typhoid feve
In men. Trlchinea In hogs poison
human beings. Both these disease
are common among swine.
Worse than oil these, and NOR
deadly, is another fact that Is seldom
commented upon because 1t il too az
palling to dwell much upon. What
called "lumpy jaw" in cattle Ii simpl
cancer. The germs of cancer ar
communicable. Many cattle hav
"lumpy jaw" Any animal wit
"lumpy jaw" Is UNFIT for huma
food.
This opens n field that demands til
immediate attention OF the govern
ment. Cancer Is the most terrible Q
all diseases. After 1t has reached
certain stage Of development 1t is al
solutely incurable. Its progress I
that stage may be without the pi
tents knowledge or suspicion. II
advance beyond that stage cannc
even be checked. 1t Stays its victim
, with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increas
, Of this most terrible of human n
nlctions has been something to alarl
us all. 1t was once rare; 1t nO'
threatens to become common. In til
, Cincinnati hospital, in the year 1877
n, the number of cancerOus patient
was one in 5S7. In 1904 the numbt
was one in 273. In 1870, when til
total population of the city was Gig
: 239, the number of cancer cases r.
ported Mt all the institutions was 4.
= in 1900, with n total population {
+ 325,9O2, the number Of cancer cast
reported at all the institutions wi
! l9S, and in 1908, with about the san
population, the number was 2G7.
\. append the table that shows this a
!. tonishing increase.
Here Is similar report from tw
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
! ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEN
: YORK.
Total No.
Year. OF patients. Canoe
1878. S.................1,655