Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-01

Tuberculosis is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products AFFLICTED with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hindrance, when pust 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 DIR. Il. d. Dudley was adopt.
ed, which provides that when n teacher
suspects that any child II affected with
the disease It shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools BY the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will be ex.
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
lly physician present ut the examlna.
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber-
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mcnt reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosis beef from getting Into the cool.
ers from which the public Ii served.
The statement TINT there are 5000
cunsumptlves 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 to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis is a Beef disease.
It 10 not hereditary.
It II not contracted from Impure air.
1t II contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid aud conscienceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
DO Of human lives.
II any OF your relatives have tuber.
eulosis 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 Ii guilty!
There Ia q day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe a. we'll %
America will be too hot to bold them.
The Beef Trust may control govern.
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectors-0nly II In all
I-although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of OctO.
Der %, 1906. speaks for itself:
The city inspectors ut the Union
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS.
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT,
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED ny
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS" )"
'"I'hey also condemned and destroyed
3O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis ana Kansas City, having
passed government inspection at those
places"
This shows the sort of government
Inspection we have.
II few Of the governmental Omis.
sions are rectified how many thous.
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are at this moment harboring
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle? ?
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging In
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber.
cular tumOrs trimmed OUT ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking of the 3,935,OOO pounds Of
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. G..
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan), ,
American Medicine, December %.
says: 'One stands aghast ut the crimi-
nal cupidity which will Induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectng community. 1t IL now
In order to 60 step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
oblluity.
ut Is well known that cOmbina-
tions OF the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails.
ing the price Of food stuffs beyond the
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry has
always been In protest against the In.
creased cost Of living, but here for the
first time are the combinations which
control the food supply, brought Into q
direct relation to public health.
"It Is high time that this matter
be taken out Of the class of minor of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
In war, when all kinds OF brutality arc
sanctioned II is the height Of dis