Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-20
Il Aims at the Lives, the Health and
the Pockets Of Chicago
Citizens.
Frightful Food Thrown Into This
City While the Government In.
spectors Sit Supinely BY.

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 ut work to
poison the people of Chicago in the in.
tercst of corporate monopoly?
If II is the Beef Trust. the people
should drive it out of the state.
In one year the people of Chicago
would have served on their tables
1.141.3IG pounds Of diseased meats,
fish. poultry and vegetables II 1t were
not for the activity Of the city health
inspectors.
According to the report Of DR..
Charles J. whalcn. 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. 10. this
Is what the city inspectors condemned
and destroyed:
Two hundred and eleven cattle. o..
$50 pounds; III hogs. 12G.662 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,i07 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 3,625 pounds, were condemn.
cd 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. the weekly condemna.
tiOns OF UNFIT food have averaged 1877.
300 pounds Of meats, fish, poultry, ETC.,
and 23,1OO pounds Of fruit and vegc.
tables. which, II maintained for the
year, would make an aggregate Of
7,14i.3i6 pounds Of meat, ETC., and Of
1,?O1,20 pounds OF fruits and vege.
tables condemned and destroyed as un.
ut for human food.
The principal causes OF meat con.
demnation were tuberculosis, 'lumpy
jaw" hog cholera, immaturity, and
cancellation: OF fish, ''taint" and stale.
ness, and Of fruit and vegetables, rot.
tenness.
Under date OF Nov. II the chief meat
inspector at the Union stock yards re.
ports TO the director Of the laboratory
that "as'a result OF the activity OF the
city meat inspectors in condemnlng.
tanking, and destroying emaciated and
tuberculosis cattle In the coolers"
after they had been passed by the gov.
eminent inspectors. the packers are al.
vislng shippers not to send such AMI.
mails into this market.
The condemned food has been found
not only In the stock yards, but In pr.
vate markets and the big cold.storage
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.
DR.. Whalen says the city has big
problem to crush out this immoral and
dangerous traffic, and he will resort to