Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-20
Its Canned Goods, and Has Combatted Every Attempt
to Make It Pay Costs Of inspection.
Now it Has Raised the Price of the Food Products O
the Country and It's Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record.

cnlar tumors "trim,Ded cot" seaAy 10
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3.oos. on sounds Of
food condemned n 1906 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 %,
says: One stands aghast Mt the crimi.
nal cupidity which will Induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. It Ii now
In order to 60 step farther and find
out who Ii responsible for this moral
obliquity.
att IL we'll known that combina.
lions Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails.
Ing the price Of food stutfs 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
control the food supply, brought W. q
direct relation to public health.
att 10 high time that this n>tter
be taken out Of the ciass Of mino, Of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
h war, when all kinds of brutality are
sanctioned. II 10 the height Of die.
hOn0r-even murder-to poison the
water supply Of a country. ID II any
better to poison the food suppiyi II
Ii time that the public mind should
develop conscience in this direction +"
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
reid the following from the Health De.
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1905 |:
"The total amount Of meats con.
dcmned during the period was 1.343,343
pounds. or the principal causes Of
condemnation. 81 PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS. ~ per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. o,
1905: "a total OF 1880 pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
during the past week) under the su.
pervlsion Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4,0S3 pounds Of governmental.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
Health Department Bulletin, Novem.
Der II, 1905:
although the condemnation and de.
structiOn Of food supplies unfit for
human consumption during the past
three months--slnce the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
BY order Of the CommissiOner-ha
reached immense proportions, much un.
tit food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats as show gross
pathOlogic conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa.
cilities for microscopic laboratory OK.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned and destroyed 80 parts
OF beef carcasses, 3 hogs and cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"rhe total stock yards condemnatio
amounted to 17G,SOS pounds"
"Parts Of beet carcasses 7"
In other words 1t has been and IL
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumOrs and let the rest OF
the carcass 90 to the people for food
And yet We call ourselves civilized.
The Beef trust will find It hard
10 get resting place when the PEG.
pie Of this country rise against It.
as they surely will. The people of the
whole world are crying for Its exter.
minati0n.
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An average OF $1,000 pounds Of dis.
eased meat " CONDEMNED every week by