Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-13
Government Meat Inspectors Chosen from
Beef Trust Employees Under the
New Inspection Law.
Everything to Be Sold in Cans to
the Public Without Any
Restraint.

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--since the resumption Of
| Stock Yards inspection August ult.,
! by order Of the Commissioner-have
reached immense PROPORTIONS. much un.
! fit food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats rs show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fla.
cilities for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
''The Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned and destroyed 80 parts
Of beef carcasses. 3 hogs and O cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'.The total stock yards condemnations
amounted to 1I6.SOS pounds"
Speaking Of the 3,035,0OO pounds Of
food condemned in 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DR.. q.
]. 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 Whalen),
American Medicine December 70.
says: One stands aghast ut the crimi.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. It Il now
In order to 60 step farther and lind
out who Il responsible for this moral
obliquity.
"'It Il well known that combinations
OF the larger meat dealers have exist.
ed In the past to the end of raising
the price Of food stufYs beyond the point
to which healthy competition would re.
duce them. The cutlery has always been
| In protest against the increased cost
Of living, but here for the first time
are the combinations which control the
food supply, brought into direct rela.
ton to the public health.
"It 10 high time that this matter
be taken out Of the class Of minor Of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
In war, when all kinds OF brutality are
sanctioned, 1t Ia the height OF dis.
honor-even murder-to poison the
water supply OF a country. Is 1t any
better to poison the food supply? 1t
Is time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction
Speaking OF Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health De-
partment Bulletin, November 4. 1908
"rhe total amount Of meats con-
demned during the period was 1,343,343
pounds. or the principal causes OF
condemnation. SIS PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS - per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and I per
cent for hog cholera"
The following from the Bulletin OF
the Health Department for month OF
May: "rhe meat inspectors ut the
stockyards condemned and destroyed q
total OF 4sl,705 pounds Of beef. pork
veal and mutton"
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| London. March 0.-The memory OF
the American meat scandals which had
been almost forgotten, have been re-
yiyed afresh by the extraordinary
statements and criticisms Of Mr.. Trot
ter, veterinary surgeon OF the corpo
ration of Glasgow, on the methods OF
inspection of American meat prior u
expectation. This Is what TrOttel
says in his report, submitted TO the
health committee Thursday;
ION Feb. IS and again on the 10th
seized rs unit for human food Il
foreleg Of chilled beef, deposited in TIT
meat market On the instance OF thu
agent Of one OF the largest meat eX
porters of the United Stats. Eaci
forcleg was marked United States III
spected aud passed, B.
ION inspection each foreleg wa
found 'stripped'-'that is, the Serious
membrane covering the costal pleura
had been removed, but ut places dis
tlnct tubercular nodules remained ant
gandular invasion was manifest.
"These forelegs showed no evidence
of having been previously inspected
They were parts OF carcasses which, IL
accordance with the regulations issued
by the bureau OF animal industry tC
the government meat inspectors detail
ed for duty in packing establishments
OF the United States, ought TO have
been rejected as unfit for human food
and TO have been rendered into tallow
after diseased parts had been re-
moved.
This reveals that the inspection Is
not in conformity with government
regulations and lends credence TO the
assertions made regarding the un,
trustw0rthlness of the official inspcc,
tlOn which obtains IN the United
States Of America.
"This assertion also receives cor
roboratlon by perusal Of the figures