Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-03
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty of
Spreading Tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

was conuemncd by the department III
spcctors mt the Union stock Yards |
and destroyed under their supervision.
At retail markets. 3.SSD pounds Of |
dressed meats: 2l.i5O pounds Of fish. |
and 3.OS6 pounds Of poultry. hams
and rabbits were condemned and de- |
stroycd.
"rhc Commissioner has issued the
following instructions to the chief in.
spector ut the Union Stock Yards:
"'While actinomycosis is usually
confined to the head, and may be said
In one sense to be a localized disease.
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved, I believe It Is
safest and most practicable to con.
demn tho entire carcass wherever the
electromagnetic absccss opens into the
mouth. pharynx. larynx or any part of
the digestive or respiratory tract; or
when the lymphatlc glands are involv-
ed; or where there are electromagnetic
tumors IN the lungs: or when the lc.
sions have become generaliZcd. since
generalization In actinomycOsis ap-
pears to run very atypic course.
making the detection of nll fOci inside
the muscle very difficult: therefore.
the entire carcass Is to lie condemned.
"'ln cases where the electromagnetic
LESSONS are positively localized. the in
fcctcd part may he cut away and the
remains of the carcass used.
"'rhcsc instructions apply only to
''lumpy jaw" There may he other
| reasons why you should want to con.
dcmn u carcass. and Il Is then q mat
ter of Judgment for you and your men.
But You should never hesitate To con.
denim II you believe the animal to he
not III for human food"
The most amazing stupidity concciv.
able Of any people with foreheads Is
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 care.
less community might tolerate u mo.
nopoly Of some things, how 1t might
endure 10 have Its transportation, for
instance, or its electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men Gun
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps; but that 1t should tolerate a
monopoly Of the primal necessity Oi
food is beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked saw
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that. and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such monstr0ui
condition Ii our own.
/. From a thousand illustrations Of thu
injuries We all suffer from this idiotit
: arrangement let us cite one.
There IL no way OF communicating
disease to the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Som,
, OF the worst and most destructive ba
. cilll that prey upon mankind are com
: mon among the animals he eats TO
D food. Cows have tuberculosis an'
:. spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. 1t Is so com
n mon among cows that the wise an'
{ the forewarned will use none but ster
w
= among swine In merely typhoid feve
In men. Trlchinea In hogs poison
human beings. Both these disease
are common among swine.
i Worse than oil these, and NOR
deadly, is another fact that Is seldom
= commented upon because 1t is too az
palllng to dwell much upon. What
. called "lumpy jaw" In cattle In slmpl
}. cancer. The germs Of cancer ar
4 communicable. Many cattle hav
"lumpy jaw" Any animal wit
"lumpy Jaw" is unit for huma
c. food.
This opens n field that demands til
II Immediate attention Of the govern
II ment. Cancer In the most terrible Q
all diseases. After 1t has reached
I. certain stage of development 1t is nj
$. solutely incurable. Its progress I
$, that stage may be without the pi
It tents knowledge or suspicion. II
). advance beyond that stage cannC
even be checked. 1t slays its victim
10 with the most horrible torture.
!. In this country the recent incrcas
n of this most terrible OF human n
IS ilictiOns has been something to alarl
4 us all. 1t was once rare; II no.
threatens to become common, In til
A. Cincinnati hospital, in the year 1877
"A n, the number of cancerous patient
was one in 5S7. In 1904 the numbt
was one in 273. In 1870, when I'll
total population of the city was 2lG
g $50, the number of cancer cases n
ported at all the institutions was 4.
IL In 1900, with total population {
g. 325,9O2, the number of cancer case
reported Mt all the institutions wa
= l0S, and in 1908, with about the san
population, the number was 267.
:, append the table that shows this a
:. tonlshlng increase.
Here Is similar report from tw
well-known hospitals elsewhere
id ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEy
u YORK.
u Total No.
Year. of patients. Canoe
1919. ..,..., l,OoJ
q. 1879. 0....,......,.,..,1, 1917 4
1880. ...............1 .1,474