Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02

Tuberculosis IL becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afillcted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hindrancc. when past inspection"
The school management committee OF
the Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DIR. Il. d. Dudley was adopt
ed, which provides that when n teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease It shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will be ex-
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents Will
be given permission to have their fam
lily physician present ut the examnn.
tion.
The poor children who got the tuber-
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart
mcnt reports that State and govern
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosis beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public IL served.
The statement that there are $1,000
consumptives In Chicago was made Mt
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit
tee. DIR. Sachs spoke. urging drastic
action by the Board Ot Health to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis Is n Reef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t In not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by enting bud meat
sold by sortild and cOnsclenceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have trbcr'
culosIs you know who to blame.
The homes snddened by the deaths
Of husbands. wives, fathers. mothers,
brothers. sisters, sons and daughters.
The people poverty stricken BY con.
sumption,
NuOW WIZ 10
There IL n day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe rs well as
America will be too hot to hold them.
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectors--Only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo.
Der %, 1905. speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the Union
Stock Yards condemned FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
| OF TUBERCULOSIs TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED ny
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS "
'"rhey also condemned and destroyed
3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection At those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
Inspection we have.
II few OF the governmental OmIs.
siOns are rectitled how many thous
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are Mt this moment harbOring
cuts OF meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks Of meat hanging In
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber'
cular tumors "trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking OF the $685., 600 pounds OF
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. c.
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 crimi
nal cupidity which will induce men t.
attempt to sell such dangerous foods t.
an unsuspecting community. 1t IL now
In order to 90 a step farther and fint
out who Is responsible for this mora
obllqulty.
att 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 stuffs beyond til,
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry ha.
always been In protest against the In
creased cost Of living, but here for til,
crst time are the combinations whlcl
cOS:rol the food supply, brought is.r ,
direct relation to public health.
att Is high time that thls n. sttel
be taken out OF the class OF minOl OF
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
EIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Ever
"a war, when all kinds OF brutality arc
pnctioned, 1t ia the height Of dis