Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-01
The illinois State Board Of Health
Hits Both Of Them Hard in
Circular.
Duty of the City Administration with
Regard to Meat Inspection Is
Very Plain.

The new government law, as every.
body knows. does not provide for the
inspection Of meat consumed In Chicago
and Illinois.
The strange apathy Of the Chicago
authorities In the matter Of Beef Trust
violations Of the law, Is arouslng the
attention of the entire country.
The flooding of Chicago and the
State Of Illinois with lumry Jaw. tub.
CIRCULAR and cancerous beef Is causing
widespread Indignation.
The Illinois State Board Of Health
has lust issued strong circular con.
tanning recommendation to municipali-
ties concerning the supervision and In.
spection of slaughter houses, packing
houses, etc.
The following extracts show how
hard the circular hits the city govern.
ment Of Chicago:
'.The Illinois State Board Of Health.
By special resolution, adopted at reeu.
lar meeting. held In Chicago June 10th
and 2lst, 1905, urgently recommends
70 the mayors and councils Of all cities
anu the presidents and boards Of trus.
tees Of all villages, and to all other
health officials In all parts Of the State,
the enactment and enforcement Of orll.
nances providing for the supervision
and the regular and systematic inspec'
ton Of all slaughter houses. packing
houses, storage houses, markets, Gel.
lars and all other establishments used
Tor the preparation, manufacture, stor.
ace or sale Of food intended for hu.
man consumption.
'.rhe health Of the people IL largely
dependent upon the purity. quality and
cleanliness Of their food and these
may be controlled and guaranteed to
the people only through the conscien.
tio,,s efforts Of health oliicials acting
under the powers conferred upon them
BY the statutes.
'sThe people Of each municipality
have the right to expect that the OH.
cisis whom they have entrusted with
the enforcement Of the law, will give
them every possible protection provided
BY the law, and the statutes Of the
State Of Illinois are 10 liberal In their
construction an to give to the munich
pality Gull power to control all Of those
tbings which may In any way effect the
health Of the people.
"Umier the provisions Of an act to
provide for the incorporation Of cities
and villages, approved April 10. 1872
(Reyised Statutes, Chapter "a. Section
O2), the councils In cities and the presi'
dent and the board Of trustees In VII
lsges are empowered to regulate the
sale Of meat, poultry. fish, butter
cheese, lard, vegetables and all other
provisions; to regulate the sale Of
bread and to prescribe its quality; to
proyide for the Inspection Of all articles
Of food; to declare what shall con
stitute a nuisance. and to abate same
and to fine all who permit nulsances
to exist; to appoint board OF health
and prescribe its powers and duties
TO DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALL
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH OR no PREVENT DIS
EASE; to direct location and regulate
the management and construction d
hacking houses either within the hmit'
Of the corporation or within one milt
from ito boundaries; to compel TIKI
owner OF any grocery or any unwliole
some or nauseOus place to cleanse ant
abate or remove same and to regulate
its location. Under the provisions o.
tho same law, municipalities are en-
powered to impose fines, not exceeding
200 for each Offense, or Imprisonment
not exceeding six months, for the viola
ton Of any Of Its ordinances"
aside from the specific provisions q
the law, quoted above. the one pro
vision, empowering the municipaht!
ITO DO ALL ACTS AND Make ALI
REGULATIONS no PROMOTE
HEALTH AND PREVENT DISEASE
gives ample authority Tor the local OH
cials to undertake the supervision AM
systematic inspection Of those place
In which food for human consumption
Il either prepared, manufactured
stored or offered for sale. However
the specific provisions Of the statute'
remove all doubt a. to the limits =
which the municipality may 60 In TIN
protection Of the health of the people.
animal food 10 particularly suscep
tible to bacterial action and to decOm
position which In FASTENED by killinl
and handling In filthy slaughter house
or by improper refrigeration and stor
age"
"MEAT FROM DISEASED AM
MAILS, TOO FREQUENTLY SIAAUGH
TDRED FOR HUMAN FOOD, MAJ
RE PRODUCTIVE OF WIDESPREAD
DISEASE AMONG THOSE WH(
CONSUME IT,"
=
'.rhe oft repeated statement tina
cooking will remove the poisonous prOl
critics Of spoiled meat is not to be re
lied upon."
"In Wow of these facts, 1t Is the dut
o, the health officials of all municipal
ties to establish such supervision an
Inspection as will render impossible tn
maintenance of unsanitary slaughte
houses and packing houses, the KILN
Of diseased animals or the sale q
meats and other foods which, by thel
original character, or changes while
have taken place On them, are unfit TO