Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-22
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

Speaking Of the 3.03h. on" mounds 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 WE'RE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan),
American Medicine December %,
says: One stands aghast at the crIml.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to go step farther and find
out who IL responsible for this moral
obliQulty.
"'lt Is well known that combina.
tions Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rats.
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
coA:rol the food supply, broue>t i<a, q
direct relation to public health.
"'lt Ii high time thnt thiI n. utter
be taken out Of the class Of mino, of.
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
h war, when all kinds Of brutality are
~nctioned. Il n the height Of dis.
honor-even murder-to poison the
water supply Of country. II II any
better to poison the food suppiyi II
h 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, 1905:
"The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1,348, ,343
pounds. or the principal causes OF
condemnation. S5 PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, u per cent for
actinomycosis-lumpy jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. 9.
1906: ~ total Of 147,0s)O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
During the past week) under the 81.
pervisiOn OF the department inspectors
at the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 1853 pounds Of gOvernment.in.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
The Beef Trust 10 getting worse
~6A
Health Department Bulletin, N0vem.
Der II. 1905:
"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-hav
reached immense proportions, much un.
1T food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats - show gross
path0logic conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa.
cilities for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec-
tors condemned and destroyed 80 parts
Of beef carcasses, 8 hogs and cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"rhe total stock yards condemnation
amounted to l76,SOs pounds"
parts OF beef carcasseS !"
In other words II has been and In
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumOrs and let the rest OF
the carcass 20 to the people for food!
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
The Beef Trust will md II hard
10 get q resting place when the pe0.
pie OF this country rise against II.
a. they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for IT. sxter.
minati0n.
An average Of 10000 pounds OF die.
essed meat ID condemned every week BY
Chicago Health Department Inspectors
In butcher shops and grocery and d.
partment stores "inside the Union
loop"
II this great amount Of tubercular,
cancerous and maggoty material can be
found BY the inspectors and destroyed
'inside the loop" a small territory
bounded by the river. Van Buren, street,
Wabash and Fifth avenues. bow many
million pounds are sold to the public
and consumed In the vast territory out.
side the loop?
This Ia a very pertinent qUouti0n.
That $1,000 pounds OF diseased meat
can escape stockyards inspection every
week and find Itself into department
and other stores "inside the loop"
should suffice to call attention to the
vast amount Of poisonous food that e..
capes inspection at the stockyards and
u sold outside the loop.
Facts are fscts. and esures HsvE II