Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-16
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of i.
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
hindrance, when past inspection"
The school management committee Of
tile Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DR.. Il. ID. Dudley was adopt
Ell, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease 1t shall be made known
10 the superintendent of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will be ex.
amlncd by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission TO have their fam.
lily physician present ut the examina.
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
ment reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosis beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public IL served.
The statement that there are 10000
cvnsumptives In Chicago was made nj
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 Of Health to stamp
out the dlsease.
Tuberculosis IL n Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t IL not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sOrtiid and consciencelcss men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tnber
culosis you know who to blame.
The homes saddened by the deaths
Of husbands, wives, fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters, sons ana daughters.
The people poverty stricken by con.
sumption,
Know who IN guilty!
There II u day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
tllolr track until Europe as we'll as
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 at 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 by
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
"rhey also condemned and destroyed
3,O33 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
St Louis and Kansas CitS, having
passed government inspectisn at those
places"
This shows the sort of government
Inspection we have.
II a few Of the governmental omls.
siOns are rectiaed how many thous.
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are Mt 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.
cular tumors trimmed OUT ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3,835,OO pounds of
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. G.
j. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says
in 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 23,
says: 'One stands aghast at the crlmi-
nal cupidlty which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to 60 step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
obllQulty.
ait 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 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
E:st time are the combinations which
coS.rol the food supply, brought iS.y Y
direct relation to public health.
"It is high time that this NJ utter
be taken out OF the class of minol Of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
"a war, when oil kinds Of brutality are
fDuctioned. Il 10 the hoight Of a..