Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
of Il.
Health Department Finds Cattle in
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

Tuberculosis is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hindrance. when past "inspection."
The school management committee of
the Board of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. \
report drafted by superintendent
Cooley and Dr. f. II. Dudley was adopt
ed. which provides that when n teacher
suspects that any child is affected with
the disease ii shall be made known
to the superintendent of schools 10y 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
ily physician present mt the cxamina-
tion.
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 is served.
The statement that there are $4,000
consumptives In Chicago was made ut
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 Il Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid and constituencies men
who think more of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tuber'
culosis you know who to blame.
The homes saddcned 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 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 ms
America will be too hot to hold them.
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of city
OF Chicago inspectors-only II In oil
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention t0
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
ber oS. 1905, 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 by
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
''They also condemned and destroyed
3.093 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City. having
passed government Inspection NJ thos'
places
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
II few of the governmental om!s
sions are rectified how many thous
ands are not:
How many homes In Europe AM
America are at this moment harborin,
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging II
the coolers OF trust houses, with tuber
cular tumors trimmed out" ready +
be cut into steaks.
Speaking OF the 1896, 600 pounds o
food condemned In 1905 by Chicag
Health Department inspectors, DIR.
]. Whalen, Health Commissioner, say
in his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED o,
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Commenting upon this condltio
Continues Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine December .:
says: one stands aghast at the Grim
nal cupidlty which will induce men I
attempt to sell such dangerous foods t
an unsuspccting community. II Is nov
In order % 90 q step farther and fin
out who is responsible for this mora
obllqulty.
lit Il well known that combine
tIOns of the larger meat dealers hay
existed In the past 10 the end Of ral'
ing the price Of food stuffs beyond III
point 10 which healthy cOmpetltlO
would reduce them, The Outcry la
always been in protest against the II
creased cost Of living, but here for III
first time are the combinations whic
control the food supply, brought into
direct relation 10 public health.
ut Is high time that this matte
be- taken out Of the class Of minor o
fenscs AND THE DEALERS THEN
SELVES LOOKED UPON ~ TIL
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
In war; when all kinds of brutality al
sanctioned, II Is the height Of di
hOnor-even murder to poison II
water supply Of a country. il il an
better TO poison the food supply?
is time that the public mind shou
develop conscience In this direction.