Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-12

Tubefculosis Il becoming eptdemlc.
The Besf Trust products afllcted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hindrance, when past inspection"
The scheol 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 TINT when teacher
suspects that any child 10 affected with
the disease Il 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 the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam
ily physician present ut the examina.
tion.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosls from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mont reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosls beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public II served.
The statement that there are $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. DR.. Sachs spoke, urging drastic
action by the Board Of Health to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis 10 a Beef disease.
II 10 not hereditary.
It 10 not contracted from impure cir.
It 10 contracted BY eating bad meat
sold BY sordld and conscienceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tuber.
culoais you know who to blame.
The homes saddened BY the deaths
Of husbands. wives, fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters, sons and daughters.
Tho people poverty stricken by con.
sumption,
There II day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Engle will keep upon
their track until Europe AZ well AZ
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 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.
TILE FOUND IN THE COOLERS,
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIs TRIMMED OUT,
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED ny
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
"rhey also condemned and destroyed
3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government Inspection ut those
places"
This shows the sort OF government
inspection We have.
II few Of the governmental omis.
sions are rectitied how many thous.
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America 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.
cular tumors trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking OF the 3,036, 900 pounds OF
food condemned In 1906 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, Dr. G.
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS."
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan),
American Medicine December %,
says: One stands aghast at the crimi.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
m unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to 60 step farther and find
Dut who Is responsible for this moral
1bliqulty.
at Is we'll known that combina.
tons OF the larger meat dealers have |
existed In the past to the end of rails.
ng 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.
'reased cost Of living, but here for the
.-st time are the combinations which
oSsrol the food supply, brouc.. iS.-
llrect relation to public health.
ut IL high time that th,, n. utter
'e taken out Of the class of mino, OF.
enses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
light OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
. war, when all kinds OF brutality are
anctioaed, II is the height OF dis. ,