Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09
The illinois State Board Of Health
Hits Both Of Them Hard in
Circular.
Duty of the City Administration with
Regard to Meat Inspection Is
Very Plain.

The new government law, rs every
body knows, does not provide for the
INSPECTION of meat consumed In Chicago
and Illinois.
The strange apathy Of the Chicago
authorities In the matter of Beef Trust
violations Of the law, Is arousing the
attention of the entire country.
The flooding Of Chicago and the
State Of illinois with lumry jaw. tub.
CIRCULAR and cancerous beef is causing
widespread Indignation.
The Illinois State Board .; Health
issued strong circular contain
Ing recommendations to municipali-
ties concerning the supervision and In
spection Of slaughter houses, packing
houses, etc.
The following extracts show how
hard the circular hits the city govern.
ment Of Chicago:
..The Illinois state Board Of Health,
BY special resolution, adopted at regu.
lar meeting. held In Chicago June 10th
and 2ist, 1000, urgently recommends
% the mayors end ceuncils Of oil cities
anu the presidents and boards Of trus'
tees Of all Villages. and to oil other
health ollicials In oil parts Of the State,
the enactment and enforcement Of ordi.
uances providing Cor the supervision
and the regular and systematic inspec.
ton Of all slaughter houses, packing
houses, storage houses, markets. Gel.
lars and all other establishments used
for the preparation, manufacture. stor-
age or sale Of food Intended for hu.
man consumption.
'sThe health Of the people Il largely
dependent upon the purity. quality and
cleanliness OF their food and these
may be controlled and guaranteed to
the people only through the ccnscien.
tlous efforts Of health officials acting
under the powers conferred upon them
by the statutes.
"T,he people Of each municipality
have the right to expect that the OIL
clals whom they have entrusted with
the enforcement Of the law, will give
them every possible protection provided
by the law. and the statutes Of the
state Of Illinois are 10 liberal In their
construction AZ to give to the munich.
paiity full power to control all OF those
things which may in any way eject the
health Of the people.
"Under the provisions, Of an act to
provide for the Incorporation OF cities
and villages. approved April 10. 1871
(Revised Statutes, Chapter -. Section
or, the councils In cities and the presl'
dent and the board OF trustees In VII
lagos are empowered to regulate the
sale of meat, poultry, fish. butter,
cheese, lard, vegetables and oil other
provisions; to regulate the sale OF
bread and to prescribe Its quality; to
provide for the inspection Of all articles
OF food; to declare what shall con-
stltute a nuisance and to abate same
and to fine all who permit nulsances
to exist; to appoint board OF health
and prescribe Its powers and duties
TO DO ALL ACTS. AND MAKE ALL.
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH OR no PREVENT Dis
EASE; to direct location and regulate
the management and construction q
hacking houses either within the limits
OF the corporation or within one male
from its boundaries; to compel the
owner Of any grocery or any unwhole'
some or nauye0us place to cleanse ana
abate or remove sane and to regulate
Ito location. Under the provisions OF
the same law, municipalities are EN-
powered to Impose Anes, not exceeding
$500 for each oifense, or Imprisonment,
not exceeding six months, for the viola
ton OF any Of It's ordinances"
"Aslde from the specific provisions Of
the law. quoted above. the one pro-
vision, empowering the municipality
TO DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALL
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH AND PREVENT DISEASE
gives ample authority for the local OIL
clals to undertake the supervision ana
systematic inspection Of those places
In which food Tor human consumption
10 either prepared. manufactured
stored or offered for sale. However,
the specific provisions Of the statutes
remove all doubt as to the limits to
which the municipality may 60 In the
protection Of the health Of the people"
"Anlmal food Is particularly suscep.
tible to bacterial action and to decom'
position which II FASTENED by killing
and handling In filthy slaughter houses
or by Improper refrigeration and stor'
age"
"MEAr FROM DISEASED AM.
MAILS, TOO FREQUENTLY SLAUGH'
TERED FOR HUMAN FOOD, MAY
BE PRODUCTIVE OF WIDESPREAD
DISEASE AMONG THOSE WHO
CONSUME IT."
.
'sThe oft repeated statement that
cooking will remove the poisonous prop.
critics Of spoiled meat.is not to be re-
lied upOn."
"In view of these facts, 1t Ia the duty
O. the health officials Of all municipal.
ties to establish such supervision and
inspection a. will render Impossible the
maintenance of unsanltary daughter
houses and packing 0ouses, Ae killing
OF diseased animals or to sale Of
meats and other foods whit h. by their
original character, or changes w.ch
have taken place In them. are unit for