Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-30
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, as 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 Il 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 a resu.
lar meeting, held In Chicago June 10th
and 21st, 1905, urgently recommends
to the mayors and councils Of all cities
anu the presidents and boards Of trus.
tees of all villages, and to all other
health officials In all parts Of the State.
the enactment and enforcement Of Orti.
nances providing for 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.
"rhe health Of the people Is largely
dependent upon the purity. quality and
cleanliness Of their food and these
may be controlled and guaranteed to
the people only through the consclen.
tlOus efforts Of health officials acting
under the powers conferred upon them
by the statutes.
'.rhe people Of each municipality
have the right to expect that the OIL
Gals whom they have entrusted with
the enforcement of the livw. will give
them every possible protection provided
by the law, and the statutes Of the
state Of Illinois are 30 liberal In their
construction ~ to give to the munlci.
pality full power to control all Of those
chimes which may in any way effect the
health OF the people.
"Unicr the provisions OF an act 10
provide for the incorporation OF cities
and villages. approved April 10. 1871
(Nevised statutes. Chapter "a. Section
6:), the councils In cities and the presi'
dent and the board Of trustees IN VII
lagos are empowered to regulate the
sale of meat, poultry, fish. butter
cheese, lard, vegetables and all 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-
stitute a nuisance and to abate same
and to line all who permit nuIsances
70 exist; to appoint board OF health
and prescribe Its powers and duties
no DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALI.
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH OR no PREVENT DIS
EASE; to direct location and regulate
the management and construction Of
hacking houses either, within the limits
Of the corporation or within one male
from its boundaries; to compel tue
owner Of any grocery or any unwhole'
some or uauseous place to cleanse and
abate or remove same and to regulate
it, location. Under the provisions Of
the same law, municipalities are en-
powered TO impose nnes, not exceeding
500 for each ofSense. or imprisonment
not exceeding elk months, for the viola
ton Of any Of IT, ordinances"
aside from the specific provisions Of
the law, quoted above. the one pro-
vision, empowering the municipality
ITO DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALI.
REGULATIONS no PROMOTE
HEALTH AND PREVENT DISEASE,
gives ample authority for the local ON
Gals to undertake the supervision and
systematic inspection Of those places
In which food for human consumption
IL either prepared. manufactured
stored or offered for sale. However
the specific prOvis bins Of the statutes
remove all doubt as to the limits tG
which the municipality may 60 In the
protection of the health Of the people.
"Animal food Is particularly suscep
tible to bacterial action and to decom
position which u FASTENED by ktilt,l
ard handling In filthy slaughter houses
or by improper refrigeration and stor
age"
"MEAT FROM DISEASED AMI
MAILS, TOO FREQUENTLY SLAUGH
TERED FOR HUMAN FOOD. MAY
BE PRODUCTIVE OF WIDESPREAD
DISEASE AMONG THOSE WHO
CONSUME IT."
'The oft repeated statement thai
cooking will remove the poisonous prop
critics Of spoiled meat IL not to be re
lied upon"
ain view Of these facts, It 10 the duty
o; the health officials Of all municipal
tles to establish such supervision ant
inspection as will render impossible TIN
maintenance of unsanitary daughter
houses and packing houses, 'Ae KILLING
OF diseased animals or t..s sale o.
meats and other foods WIFI n. by thei
original character. or changes Wool
have taken place In them. are unit to