Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-13

for 1905. as issued by the bureau Of
animal industry.
1.-THE number Of inspectors Is given
us forty. 1t therefore follows that to
conduct the examination OF 37,iS2 an.
FINALS each day each inspector would
be required to examine the carcasses
and vlscera OF not less than O37 AMI.
mails. which Is an utter imposslbllity.
"This calculation Of time does not al.
low for holidays or illness. otherwise
the number Of animals which would
fail to be inspected by each inspector
would be materially increased
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While the Beef Trust does as It
pleascs In Chicago, some of the East.
crn states arc setting good example
by the way they get after bad meat
dealers, us the following dispatch
proves:
burlington, VT, March 1.-The
Consolidated Rendering Company OF
Boston. which owns and operates the
Burlington Rendering COmpany's
plant In this city, pleaded guilty In
the Chittenden county court to-day to
four indictments charging selling and
having In Its possession diseased meat
and was fined $4,000 and costs. The
| indictments contained 100 counts, to
"a Of which the company pleaded
guilty. The remaining counts, tOgcth.
or with Indictments on similar
charges returned by the grand jury
against l.. Il. Brigham. manager of
the Burlington plant. will he quashcd
upon the payment Of the fines i'm
posed to-day.
Judge A. \. Hall in imposing the
fines said that no was In favor OF u
vigorous enforcement of all the pure
food laws. but he realized that the OK.
pense to the State OF trying these cases
would have been very large and there.
fore he took into consideration the fact
that the company pleaded guilty.
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Appendicitis IL q Bad Meat disease
1t comes from the breakfast dellca'
cles made out Of Gamer cows and
trlchina pork.
The Trust sausage Ia one of the won
ders Of creation.
1t Is made out Of the cheapest mea
and the trimming of Gamers, lumpy
jaw cattle and dead swine.
After being thoroughly mixed with
n horrible connection known to til,
trade as potato -four, this chopped
stamped, crushed and chemically treat
ed meat Is stuffed into the frequentl,
diseased CUTS OF dead animals and |,
sold to the public as sausage.
Despite the chemicals compounded
with the "meat" to make it smell
natural" both the compound itself
as well as the casing" as the gut |!
now called, are frequently the abode
OF heterogeneous.
The word appendicitis means an In
flammation Of the yermiform appendix
which lies in the lower right hand cor
ner of the abdomen.
The vermifOrm appendix Is sacl
attached to the intestine.
1t is into this resting place that tn,
microbes crawl and cause trouble.
The real trichina micr0be, which Il
very abundant In pork, and for which
no search is made by the Beef Trust
eats through all the human intestines
and, playing no favorites, Is Away,
fatal.
But the bad meat mlcrobe, which
causes appendicitis, has not strength
enough to bore through the intestines
1t merely crawls into the first an(
only stopping place In the bowels-th,
yermiform appendlx-and there q
works away until it starts inaamma
tlon.
When the first physicians began t.
realize the Geological importance o.
the appendix In intestinal innamma
ton, 1t was thought that seeds or 9th
er offending material became lodged
therein, but many operations sooI