Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-02
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of L.
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

Tuberculosis IL becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hlndrance. 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. r. d. Dudley was adopt.
ed, which provides that when u teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease It shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will be ex.
amined by medical inspectors Of tho
child study department. Parents will
be 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 Ia served.
The statement that there are 5000
cOnsumptives In Chicago was made at
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 II a Beef disease.
II IL not hereditary.
II Ii not contracted from impure air.
Il h contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid 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 saddcned by the deaths
Of husbands. wives, fathers. mothers,
brothers, sisters. sons and daughters.
The people poverty stricken by con.
sumption.
Know who is guilty!
There II day Of reckoning for these
barons OF blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe ns well ~
America will be too hot to hold them.
The Beef Trust may control govern.
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectors--Only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo.
Der %, 1905, speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors ut 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 RY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
'"They also condemned and destroyed
a,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City. having
passed government inspection 1T those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
Inspection we have.
II few OF the governmental Omls-
sions are rectited how many thous.
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
are at this moment harboring
cuts OF meat from tuberculosis cattle?
The above report Of the Health Com.
missioner speaks of meat hanging In
the coolers OF trust houses, with tuber.
rular tumors trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 1895 900 pounds of
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DR.. c.
]. Whalen, Health Commissioner. says
N his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS."
Commenting upon this condition
continues Commissioner Whelan),
American Medicine. December %,
'ays: 'One stands aghast at the crlmi.
lal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
IN unsuspecting community. 1t Ia now
n order to 20 step farther and ind
'ut who Is responsible for this moral
'bliquity.
"'lt IL well known that cOmbina-
ions Of the larger meat dealers have
xlsted In the past to the end of rails.
ne the price OF food stuffs beyond the
'Oint to which healthy competition
rOuld reduce them. The outcry has |
lways been In protest against the In.
reased cost OF living, but here for the
.st time are the combinations which
oN.rol the food supply, brouss. lx.- a
irect relation to public healtn.
"'It Is high time that th,, N utter
3 taken out OF the class OF mlno, Of.
'nses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
ELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
IGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
war, when all kinds OF brutality nre
'nctioned. 1t Is the height OF dis