Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-13
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

cular tumors "trimmed OUT ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the $685. 900 pounds Of
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. c.
]. 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 crlmi.
nal cupldity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectlng community. It Is now
In order to 90 a step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
obllqulty.
"It is well known that combina.
tions Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails.
Ing the price Of food stufrs 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 l<., q
direct relation to public health.
"It is high time that thlS N >tter
be taken out Of the class Of mino, Of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
IA war. when al kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. Il II thu heieht Of de.
hon0r-even murder-to poison the
water supply Of a country. 10 Il any
better to poison the food supplyf II
II time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction I"
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health DE.
partment Bulletin. November 4, 1905 /:
"The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1.3l3,343
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. IS PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS. ~ per cent for
mycosis-lumpy jaw--and 1 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. 0.
1905: "a total Of 147,00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
(during the past week) under the su.
pervisiOn OF the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludcs 4,0S3 pounds OF gOvernment.in.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
Health Department Bulletin, Novem.
ber II. 1905:
although the condemnation and de-
structiOn Of food supplies unit for
human consumption during the past
three mOntls-since the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult..
BY order Of the COmmlssiOner--have
reached immense proportions. much un.
tit food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats as show gross
pathOlOglc conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fla.
cilities for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec-
tors condemned and destroyed 30 parts
OF beef carcasses, 3 hogs aud q cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'rhe total stock yards cOndemnations
amounted to l7G,SOS pounds
PARTS of beef carcasses."
In other words 1t has been and Il
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular mmors and let the rest OF
the carcass 90 to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
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The Beef Trust will find 1t hard
to get resting place when the peO.
pie OF this country rise against 1t,
as they surely will. The people OF the
whole world are crying for Its exter.
mlnatiOn.