Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-12
PACKERS BUSY
BETTER|NG PLANTS
INVESTIGATING EXPERTS NOTE
IMPROVEMENTS.
REPORT FAvORS PLANTS
Seneraiiy Satisfactory Condition
Found but Still Many Unsanitary
Features Remain Uncorrected-
authorities Disagreed as to Effect
of Preservatives.

Cnicago, July THE report of the
JOINT committee of the Chicago Com
mercial and Illinois Manufacturers
associations, appointed to investigate
the packing industries of Chicago. to
gether with the reports of the experts
who accompanied them, were made
public yesterday.
Inc committee says that board
OF experts of the character employed
with professional ideals and guided
and influenced by an aesthetic sense
which embodies something of neces
sity and something of luxury should
find the product wholesome, the yards
generally clean, and the inspection
efficient seems to your committee &c
cover the situation.
"As the result of this Investigation
we ourselves have no hesitancy il
stating that meat products at the
yards are wholesome and proper food
I'VE find that the companies have
been improving conditions and prod
ucts from year to year, that improve
ments are constantly being made and
will be made, and we believe the con
ditions and surroundings at the plants
carefully protect the quality of the
products"
The experts who accompanied the
committee were.
DR.. w. A. Evans, professor oi
pathology, University of Illinois; DIR
William Herzog, late pathologist In
the bureau Of science, Manila, P. l.;
DR.. M. P. Ravenel, pathologist te
Phipps Institute, Philadelphia; Pro
fessor A. t. Peters, V. S., University
or Nebraska; Professor M. H. Rey
nolds. v. S., University of Minnesota
Their investigation occupied two
weeks, during which they made as
thorough a study of conditions in the
stock yards and packing houses as
they could possibly make within that
time.
Found Some Things Bad.
They say that part of most of the
plants are up to date, yet in each Of
these there are some sections indif
ferently good and in most of them
some things they can not approve of
1.-THE committee can cite no better
evidence of the truth of this state
ment than the very extensive i'm
provements that are now under way
everywhere.
sis there greater vagueness and less
definite information thin in regard tC
preservatives. Even scientists diff
fer on this subject Your committee
has investigated by inquiry, by search
and by analysis to determine where
preservatives were used. 1t gives the
preservatives used, but does not dis
cuss the question of the harmfulness
from personalities employed on the
one hand, nor supposedly increased
dangers resulting from the use OF I'M
preserved products, or products diff
ferently preserved on the other. II
especially commends these questions
for further scientific inquiry"
Concerning the healthfulness Of
meats the committee quotes this
opinion of Professor William Fl
WEIGH of Johns Hopkins university
Baltimore:
Diseased Cattle Not Harmful.
in view of the absence of any posi-
BILE danger to health arising from the
use of meat Of cattle affected with
only localized tuberculosis, or actin
omycosis Oumpyjawl of slight OF
moderate extent, it would, in my
opinion, be extravagant and indeed alb
surd to condemn the carriers of suci
cattle. provided the animals are wei
nourished, and otherwise in good con
dition. 1t is, of course, understood
that the diseased parts and organs
are completely removed and de
stroyed, and proper precautions taker
to guard against accidental contamin
alton of the meat with tubercular bac
cilli during and after slaughtering
As regards tuberculosis, | consider al
reasonable demands arc met by the
condemnation of carcasses affected
with extensive, active tuberculosis
and with generalized tuberculosis
The demands solely of public health
would doubtless be met by less string
ent regulations"
Should Inspect the Meat.
Summing up the observance OF the
inspection, the committee says 1t wax
reasonably careful, thorough, and IN
general efficient" and adds the opin
ion that ante-mortem inspection is o.
far less importance than inspection o.
dressed carcasses.
It is the opinion Of the committee
that animals reaching the yards deac
do not get into the stock yards
slaughteriny houaes.
1T is our opinion" says the com
mittee, that the dressed meat OF tne
yards is wholesome and proper arti
Gle of human food. The methoda EN-