Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-22

destroyed 2.704.O3s pounds OF meat, as
being unfit for food; all Of which
would have been sold In the city Of Chi.
cago. and for which the purchaser
would have paid Arst.class prices"
"rrom these figures It Is very evident
that inspection by the city Of all food
products Is Of untold value. not only
from a financial but from sanitary
and hygienic standpoint"
"The following will show how neces.
sary city inspection IL ut the Union
Stock Yards:
"The city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
ERNMENT INSPECTION:
"l?5 cattle. cause. actinomycosis.
"07 cattle. cause, emaclation.
"2i cattle. cause. tuberculosis. evl.
dence Of disease having been trimmed
out.
nc cattle. cause. 'downers.'
"27 sheep. cause. pneumonia.
"04 hogs, cause, pyaemla and tubercu.
lOsis.
ATTIC pounds Of cut meats shipped
from n. Louis. Omaha. etc, for can.
ming. This meat was sour and Shiny"
The Beef Trust IL still marching on.
leaving In Its trail tuberculosis. cancer.
appendicitis and countless other dis
eases.
1t must be stopped!
The city 10 fighting the ravages Of
the Beef Trust again with four meat
inspectors!
This number IL very Insignificant
and wholly insufficient to inspect TO-.
600 cattle and 100000 hogs a day.
But, as the Beef Trust aldermen
won't appropriate money for any more.
the Health Department does the best
1t can and that isn't very much.
Health Department report February
10. 1906:
'.rhe inspectors ut the Union stock.
yards condemned and destroyed 200
cattle. 12l hogs, 10 sheep. Z calves
a total of l2O.4s5 pounds. OF this
amount the following was condemned
by the city meat inspectors after hav'
Ing passed government inspection or
where the government had no jurlsdic.
tion: So cattle. 1926 pounds; - hogs,
1885 pounds; and 3,1?5 pounds Of cut
meats"
From the Health Department report
for the week ending February 3, 1905
1.-THE four meat inspectors ut the
Union stockyards condemned and de.
stroyed 90 carcasses of beef. l ,227 hogs
calves, 10 sheep, 6.205 pounds OF
dressed meat--a total of I42,15i
pounds. OF this amount POI carcasses
OF beef. IL hogs a~s 1905 r"""'' ri
dressed meat were condemned after
having been passed by the government
inspectors. or where the government In,
spectors had no Jurisdiction"
The murder of the people stlll goes
on.
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II the Beef Trust IL SO immaculate
why Is 1t that packers forming one sec
ton of it pleaded guilty in Pennsyl
vanla to the charge Of selling impure
products and were fined that another
set of packers belonging to 1t are now
under indictment In Lexington. Ken
lucky, for the same offense; that tho
Pure Food Commissioner of North Da
kota, In his report, openly names sew
eral Chicago packers, and tells how
they adulterated food?
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The Trust press OF Chicago carefully
eliminates from the reports OF the Chi
cagO Health Department which 1t pub
fishes, all reference to the cOndemna
ton of tubercular and cancerOu'
cattle at the Union Stock Yards. Thu
aim Of the Trust press Ia to keep TIN
people In ignorance Of true, hut awful
conditions which menace their health
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The Reef Trust mas caused q bill
raise In the price Of shoes. The al