Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-24
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of L.
Health Department Finds Cattle in
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
cuIOsis Trimmed Out.

Tuberculosis u becoming Spidamic.
The Beef Trust products aflictsd with |
tuberculosis can be sold without let Or
hindrance. when past "inspectiOn."
The school management committee OF
the Board Of NducatiOn took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by superintendent
Cooley and DIR. n. d. Dudley was adopt
ed, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease II shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will he ex.
amined by medical inspectors OF the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
lily physician present at the examina-
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mont reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosIs beef from getting into the cool.
era from which the public Ia served.
The statement that there are $1,000
consumptives In Chicago was made Mt
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit.
tee. Dr. Sachs spoke. urging drastic
action by the Board Of Health tn stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis Ia a Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t IL not contracted from impure air.
1t is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid and conscienceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do OF human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tubcr.
culo~is you know who to blame.
The homes saddened by the deaths
Of husbands. wives, fathers. mothers,
brothers, sisters, sons and daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con.
sumption,
Know who is guilty!
There In day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe as well IN
America will be too hot to hold them
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago lnspectOrs--Only II In al
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention e
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin OF OctO
ber %. 1906. speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the UnIor
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED by
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
"Thcy also condemned and destroyed
3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection at thos'
|, places"
This shows the sort Of government
, inspection we have.
II few Of the governmental Omls
, siOns are rectified how many thOus
, ands are not?
, How many homes In Europe AM
America are at this moment harborinl
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging II
y the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber
!. cular tumOrs trimmed OUT ready +
be cut into steaks.
Speaking OF the $685.. 900 pounds o
food condemned In 1905 by Chicag
A., Health Department inspectors, DR.. c
;, j. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
. In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
= MEATS WERE CONDEMNED o!
= ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
!. Commenting upon this condition
:, Continues Commissioner Whelan)
: American Medicine December 2:
. says: 'One stands aghast ut the Grim
nal cupidity which will induce men I
attempt to sell such dangerous foods I
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is no,
o In order to go step farther and fin
e out who Is responsible for this mora
l. Oblquty.
cit IL well known that combin,
tions OF the larger meat dealers hay
existed In the past to the end Of rail-
ing the price OF food stuffs beyond til
point to which healthy cOmpetitio
: would reduce them. The outcry ha
/. always been In protest against the II
/ creased cost Of living, but here for I'll
/ first time are the combinations whic
control the food supply, brought into
Il direct relation to public health.
/ "It IL high time that this matte
he taken out Of the class Of minor o
| fenses AND THE DEALERS THEN
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
II N war, when all kinds OF brutality al
sanctioned, 1t Is the height Of di
honor--even murder--tO poison Il
water supply Of country. Is 1t an
better to poison the food supply?
" time that the public mind shoul
develop n conscience in this direction
II Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculos
read the following from the Health d
partment Bulletin, November 4, 19G
| "The total amount OF meats col