Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-14
PACKERS B0RAc|c RECORDS
For the Past Three Years. Carefully Collected from Official
Reports and Press kilograms, Furnish Pure Food
Data for the Campaign of 1908

passed government inspection at those.
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have had.
II few Of the governmental omis.
sions are rectified how many thous.
ands are not3
How many homes IN Europe and
America are at this moment harborine
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattlep
aaAS above report Of the Health Com.
NA:AA:odes G.asHks Of meat hanging In
the coolers Of nsyt houses. with timber.
cular tumors trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3.035. ON hounds Of
food condemned n 1905 BY Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. @.
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THD
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner whelan).
American Medicine December q,
says: One stands aghast at the crimj.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. II ls now
In order to 60 a step farther and find
out who 10 responsible for this moral
obllquity.
"'lt is well known that combinn.
tions Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rais.
Ing the price Of food stufis 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
erst time are the combinations which
coAtrol the food supply. brought Ia, q
direct relation to public health.
ut 10 high time that thlS n>tter
be taken out Of the ciass Of miuo, of.
fcnses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIN
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
b war, when al kinds Of brutality aro
sanctioned. It 10 the height Of dls.
honor--even murder-to poison the
water supply Of a country. IL Il any
better to poison the food suppiyi it
ID time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction" 4"
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health DO.
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1905:
"The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1.848,848
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. s5 PER CENT WEIRD
FOR TUBERCULOsIs, II per cent for
actlnomycosis-lumpy jaw-and per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. Q.
1905: "A total Of 147,0OO pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
(during the past weekly under the %.
pervislOn Of the department inspectors
Mt the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4.0S3 pounds Of government.in.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
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Health Department Bulletin, Novem-
Der II, 1905:
although the condemnation and do
struction Of food supplies unfit for
human consumption during the past
three months-since the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
by order Of the Commissioner
reached immense proportions, much un.
at food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats % show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable By
the naked eye, are now condemned. ia.
cilities for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned and destroyed 30 parts
OF beef carcasses, 3 hogs and cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
TIE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"rhe total stock yards condemnations
amounted to 170.SOS pounds"
"Parts Of beef carcasses!"
In other words It has been and IL
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumOrs ana let the rest of
the carcass 60 to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
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During the twelve months prior to
the withdrawal Of the city inspectors
from the stock yards, according to the
report Of the Health Department for
10OG, issued In 1907, the city inspectors
condemned and destroyed 20O00 cat.
tic ana hogs. The principal causes for
condemnation were:
Cattle, tuberculosis, SO per cent |;
lumpy jaw, II per cent; other causes,
per cent.
Hogs, tuberculosis. 65 per cent |;
cholera ana swine plague, 20 per cent |;
other causes, 8 per cent.
But the city inspectors have now
been withdrawn from the stock yards.
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The Beef srust will hnd II hard
to get resting place when the pe0.
pie of this country rise against II.
as they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for its exter.
minatiOn.
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