Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-10
1t Has Fought Every Effort to Have Dates Placed Upon
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 of
the Country and Its Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record

cuIar tunofs trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the a036.O0" mounds Of
food condemned n 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. Dr.. G.
]. 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 q,
says: One stands aghast ut the crimi.
nal cupidlty which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
nm unsuspecting community. 1t In now
In order to go step farther and find
out who u responsible for this moral
obliquity.
att Is well known that comblna.
lions 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
erst time are the combinations which
coN:rol the food supply. brought lSt> q
direct relation to public health.
cit Ii high time that thu n utter
be taken out Of the class Of mino, of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
"a war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. Il II the height Of die
honOr-even murder-to poison the
water supply Of a country. IL II any
better to poison the food supplyf II
Ii time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction"
Speaking Of Reef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health De-
partment Bulletin. November 4, 1906:
"The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1.343,343
pound& OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. S5 PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS. II per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. 0.
1906: "A total Of 147,00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
during the past weekly under the su.
pervisiOn Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4,0s8 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, 1906:
although the condemnation and de.
struction Of food supplies unit for
human consumption during the past
three mOnths-since the resumption of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
BY order Of the Commissioner have
reached immense proportions, much un.
1t food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats a. show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable by
The naked eye. are now condemned. Ia.
rilities for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec-
tors condemned and destroyed 81 parts
Df beef carcasses, 8 hogs and o cattle
HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
1.-THE total stock yards condemnatl lions
to l76SO8 pounds"
"Parts Of beef carcasses!"
In other words II has been and n
The practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumOrs and let the rest OF
the carcass 60 to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
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The Beef ,~rus, will dnd It hard
b set resting place when the PEG.
pie Of this country rise against 1t,
a. they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for IT. exter.
mtnatiOn.
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An average Of $4,000 pounds OF dis.
aO In l.