Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-01
BEEF TRUST WARNING.
The Chicago Health Department Tells the
Public that Lumpy Jaw Beef Causes
Appendicitis.
The Chicago Eagle Has Made this
Contention for a Year and
Is Upheld.

The Health Department of the city
of Chicago has finally upheld the con.
tention of The Chicago Eagle, main.
tained for over a year, that lumpy Jaw
beef, sold by Chicago packers to con.
sumers after the local ulcers had been
cut away, was the cause OF append.
citis.
In bulletin just issued by Commits.
sioner of Health Charles j. whalen,
the following warning TO the public
appears:
In It's report to the council Of the
Chicago Medical Society last July, the
Committee of the Society, appointed to
examine into the sutiiciency Of the "ln.
structlons to Meat Inspectors" Of the
Health Department, with reference to
the protection OF the health Of the con.
sumer and OF the public health, said,
a. to actlnomycosis. or 'lumpy jaw"
''Thc Chicago regulations are distinctly
more severe than those Of other coun.
tries. The committee holds
that the regulations as TO condemnation
for assesses opening into the digestive
or respiratory tract are unnecessarily
severe In the absence of secondary
symptoms. Otherwise the rules We're
approved"
The results Of study Of actinomyco-
sis in the human being and In animals,
by the pathologists OF the Department
Laboratories, had led the commission.
er to supplement the original instruc-
tions concerning the inspection Of
"lumpy jaw" cattle, with special or.
der, reading as follows:
"While actinomycosiss is usually con.
fined to the head, and may be said, In
one sense, 10 be localized disease, and
while some inspectors condemn the part
Involved, | believe 1t Is safest and most
practicable to condemn the entire car.
cass whenever the electromagnetic OBJ
scess opens into the mouth, pharynX,
iarynX, or any part OF the digestive or
respiratory tract; or when the lymphat-
ic glands are involved or where there
are electromagnetic tumors in the lungs |;
or where the leslons have become gen
eralized, since generalization In acti.
nomycosis appears TO run u very atypic
course, making the detection OF all focl
inside the muscle very difficult. There.
fore, the entire carcass is to be con.
demned.
in cases where the electromagnetic
LESSONS are positively localized, the in.
fected part may be cut away and the
remainder Of the carcass used.
These Instructions apply only to
lumpy jaw There may be other rea-
sons Why you should want to condemn
u carcass, and il is then matter of
Judgment for you and your men,
But you should never hesitate II you
believe the animal 10 be not tit for
human food
That the Departments regulations,
based upon the patAo!Ogic study re-
icrrc4 tD, are not unnecessarily Sc
we're" receives additional proof In
recent address and discussion before
the Mc..aa. society Of London, Eng,
reported ia the Lancet of October II,
inst lpage $500. The subject Of the
address was ac-lnohy cosls as an ex-
cItaHt oil appendicitis, and the facts
adduceG certainly indicate one probable
cause Of the Increase OF the latter dis
appendicitis.
The c,saylst, T, II. kel!och, first
pointed out how much more frequently
actin0mycOs.s was recognized "sInce
more modern methods OF examination
had been eAployed'--as in the studies
Of the Chicago Departments patholo-
gists, The affection was formerly be-
lleyed to attack the jaws, the liver
and the lungs almost exclusively in
persons whose lives We're spent Ia the
country It was now often recognized in
other parts Of the body or In town
dwellers. The star or ray formation
was not always present, and It's alb
sence must frequently have led to
negative diagnosis when the affection
might have been recognized by proper
staining As the fungus or strepto-