Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-06

Tuberculosis is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis can he sold without let or
when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
the Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DR.. l.. ID. Dudley was adopt
ed, which provides that when 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 he ex.
amincd by medical inspectors OF the
child study department. Parents will
he given permission to have their fam.
lily physician present at the examina-
tion.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosls 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 $1,000
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 Is n Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sOrdld and conscienceless 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 saddened by the deaths
Of husbands, wives, fathers, mothers,
brothers. sisters, sous and daughters,
The people poverty stricken BY con.
sumption,
Know VINO ID guilty!
There IL a day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe as we'll 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 nspectors-only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention ia
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo'
Der %, 1905, speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors at 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 y
'"They also condemned and destroyed
3.O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection at those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
| IL q few Of the governmental Omls
siOns are rectifed how many thous
ands are not?
How many homes in Europe and
America are at this moment harbOrina
cuts Of meat f(0m 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 "a
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the $685., 900 pounds OF
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. c.
]. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
Commenting upon this condition
| CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine, December 90
says: 'One stands aghast at the crimi
nal cupidity which will induce men tO
attempt to sell such dangerous foods tO
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to go a step farther and find
out 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 q
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 OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
In war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned, 1t Is the height Of dis.