Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-11-03
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of Il.
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

Tuberculosis Is 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
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by superintendent
Cooley and DIR. Il. ID. Dudley was adopt.
ell. which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child is affected with
the disease II shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child arc 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.
culosls from meat must suffer.
We can zee 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 In served.
The statement that there IRE $4,000
consumptives In Chicago was made at
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit.
tee. DIR. Sachs spoke, urging drastic
action by the Board ot Health to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis In a Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from Impure air.
1t Ii contracted by eating bud meat
sold by sordid and conscienceless men
who think more 0f 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, sons and daughters,
The people poverty stricken BY con-
sumption,
Know who In guilty!
There IL a day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago EaRle will keep upon
their track until Europe a. well al
America will be too hot to hold them
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
hut the Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectOrs--Only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention Il
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of OctO
ber %. 1906. speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors at the Unlor
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
1908 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
St Louis and Kansas City. having
passed government inspection ut th0st
places"
This shows the sort Of sovernmsn,
inspection we have.
II a few of the governmental Omis
sions are rectiHed how many thous
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe anf
America are ut this moment harbOrinl
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging II
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber
cular tumors trimmed out" ready t
he cut into steaks.
Speaking of the $685., 900 pounds OF
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, Dr. G
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner. say,
in his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIKI
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED on
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
Commenting upon this condition
continues Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine December %
says: 'One stands aghnst at the crlmi
nal cupidlty which will induce men t.
attempt to sell such dangerous foods Il
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is nov
In order to go step farther and fint
ont who Is responsible for this mora
oblquity.
"'It Is well known that cOmbina
tlons Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails
Ing the price Of food stuffs beyond tn,
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry hai
always been In protest against the In
creased cost Of living, but here for tn,
first time are the combinations whlcl
control the food supply, brought into {
direct relation to public health.
"'It Is high time that this matter
he taken out OF the class OF minor of
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Ever
In war, when all kinds OF brutality an
sanctioned. It 10 the height Of die