Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-09
The General Public Has Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of Il.
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

Tuberculosis IL becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
can be sold without let or
when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
the Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DR.. r. d. Dudley was adopt
eti, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease 1t 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
he 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
ers from which the public Is served.
The statement that there are 10000
consumptives In Chicago was made at
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 to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis IL a Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is 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 tuber'
cuiosis 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 Is a day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upor
their track until Europe rs well as
America will be too hot to hold them
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of cit!
Of Chicago inspectors-only II In nj
although now strangely discontinue,
was still sufficient to call attention 4
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicag'
Health Department Bulletin Of OctO
Der %, 1905. speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors at the Uniol
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT
; TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
. WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
! OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED r,
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"They also condemned and destroye
! 3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped fror
st. Louis and Kansas City, havin
passed government inspection at thOs
places"
This shows the sort Of government
: inspection We have.
; IL a few Of the governmental Omii
slons are rectifed how many thou,
; ands are not?
How many homes In Europe an
: America are Mt this moment hnrbOrin
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Con
y missioner speaks Of meat hanging
j. the coolers Of trust houses. with tube
j. cular tumOrs trimmed out" ready
be cut into steaks.
. Speaking Of the $685.. 600 pounds {
. food condemned in 1905 by Chicar
u Health Department inspectors, DR..
+ J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, sa!
+ In his annual report
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED o.
d ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
commenting upon this conditio
II CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan
American Medicine December .
q says: 'One stands aghast at the Grim
l. nal cupidity which will induce men
attempt to sell such dangerous foods
n an unsuspecting community. 1t IL no
IL In order to 90 n step farther and In
out who Is responsible for this NOR,
l. obliquity.
"'It Is well known that combln
tlons Of the larger meat dealers ha,
existed IN the past to the end of raj
u ing the price of food stuifs beyond Il
point to which healthy competitit
: would reduce them. The outcry h;
. always been in protest against the 1
creased cost of living, but here for Il
first time are the combinations whiC
| control the food supply, brought into
direct relation 10 public health.
"'It Is high time that this matt
be taken out Of the class of minor O
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEN
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
II LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
m war, when all kinds Of brutality a
sanctioned, 1t is the height Of dl
hOnor-even murder-to poison Il
water supply of a country. Is 1t al
better to poison the food supply?
Is time that the public mind shou
develop conscience in this direction.
l. Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculos
read the following from the Health u
partment Bulletin, November 4, 10O
"The total amount of meats co