Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

Tuberculosis IL becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
can be sold without let or
when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
the Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DR.. r.. u. Dudley was adopt
ed. which provides that whom teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease 1t 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.
amincd by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
he given permission TO have their fam.
lily physician present ut the examina-
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mont reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber-
culosis beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public In served.
The statement that there are $4,000
consumptives 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 In a Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t is not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid and conscienccless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tubcr.
culosIs you know who to blame.
The homes saddcned by the deaths
Of husbands, wives. fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters. sons ana daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con-
sumption,
Know who Il guilty.!
There II n day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood aud tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe ns well as
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 all
although now strangely discontinued
WAS still sufficient to call attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo-
ber %, 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors Mt 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
3,003 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 Il few of the governmental Omis-
sions are rectilicd how many thOus.
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe ana
America are mt this moment harbOrlng
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 1885,, 600 pounds Of
food condemned In 1903 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, Dr. G.
j. Whalcn, 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 %,
WV thc
nal cupfdity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectlng community. 1t IL now
In order to go step farther and find
ont who Is responsible for this moral
obliqulty.
"'It is well known that cOmblna-
tlons 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
direct relation to public health.
"'It Is high time that this matter
be taken out Of the class Of minor of.
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT or PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
IN war. when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned, 1t Is the height of dis