Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-05
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of i.
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.
And Also Says that It Is Guilty Of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved, bellete 1t IL
safest and most practicable to con.
demn the entire carcass wherever the
actInOmycOtic abscess opens into the
mouth, pharynx, larynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract; or
when the lymphatlc glands are involv.
ed; or where there are actinomycotic
tumOrs In the lungs; or when the le.
sions have become generallzed, since
generalization in actinOmycOsis mp
pears to run very atypic course,
making the detection Of all foci inside
the muscle very difficult; therefore,
the entire carcass is to be condemned.
"'1n cases where the actinOmycotic
LESSONS are positively localized, the in.
fected part may be cut away and the
remains Of the carcass used.
"'rhese instructions apply only to
''lumpy jaw" There may he other
reasons why you should want to con.
demn carcass. and 1t is then mat.
ter of Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate to con.
demn II you believe the animal to be
not fit for human food"
The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able Of any people with foreheads Is
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In a powerful article
written by him In the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how a care.
less community might tolerate mo.
nopoly of some things, how It might
endure to have Its transportation, for
instance. or Its electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps: but that 1t should tolerate a
monopoly Of the primal necessity Of
food Is beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked sav.
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that, and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such monstrous
condition Ii our own.
From thousand illustrations Of the
injuries we all suffer from this idiotic
arrangement let us cite one.
There Is no way Of communicating
disease to the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Some
Of the worst ana most destructive ba.
/. GILL that prey upon mankind are COM
mon among the animals he eats for
? food. Cows have tuberculosis and
| spread vast quantities Of It through
7 the human population. It 10 30 COM
mon among cows that the wise and
| the forewarned will use none but ster'
, ilixed milk. What IL hog cholera
!, among swine Ii merely typhoid fever
, In men. Trlchinca In hogs poisons
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than all these, and more
{ deadly, is another fact that 10 seldom
. commented upon because It II too ap
r paliins to dwell much upon. What Il
called "lumpy Jaw" In cattle is simply
cancer. The germs Of cancer are
communicable. Many cattle have
"iumpy Jaw" Any animal with
"lumpy Jaw" IL unit for human
) food.
This opens a neld TINT demands tn,
) immediate attention Of the govern
. ment. Cancer IL the most terrible ol
all diseases. After It has reached Z
certain stage Of development It 10 alb
sOlutely incurable. Its progress Il
}. that stage may be without the pa
tents knowledge or suspicion. 1T
I advance beyond that stage canno
= even be checked. 1t Stays its victiml
with the most horrible torture.
!. In this country the recent increas'
J, Of this most terrible Of human af
J. filctions has been something to alarm
t us all. 1t was once rare; It nov
J. threatens to become common. In th'
Cincinnati hospital. In the year 1870
u, the number of cancerOus patlent
}. was one In 6S7. In 1904 the numbe
3 was one In 273. In 1870, when tn
8 total population Of the city was 218.
|, 230, the number of cancer cases re
ported Mt all the institutions was 42
/ In 1900, with total population o
4 3250O2. the number Of cancer case
reported at all the institutions wa
lOS, and In 1908, with about the sam
, population, the number was 2G7.
y append the table that shows this as
/ tonishing increase.
Here is n similar report from tw
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
. ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
YORK.
!. Total No.
!. Year. Of patients. Cancer
1878. .................1,6 1865 2
1870. .1,617 4
a 1880. .......... .1,474 2
) 1881. .1.O55
:. 1882. .2,168
1883. .2,l32 3
1884. .2,24S 3
1885. .2,372
G. 1886. 1884
1887. ..2.72S
s 1888. S.................2.4 .2.4S7 3
l. 1880. .2,754 Z
Il 1890. ..c.s15 Z