Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-05
1t 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
the Country and It's Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record

culnr tumors "trimmed out" ready to
he cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3.035. ON hounds Of
food condemned N 1905 by Chicago
I 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 Wfielan),
American Medicine December %,
says: One stands aghast Mt the crimi.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectlng community. 1t Is now
In order to go step farther and find
out who Ii responsible for this moral
obliqulty.
"'lt Is well known that combIna.
lions Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of raiy.
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
coAtrol the food supply, brought Ira, q
direct relation to public health.
att IL high time that thlS natter
be taken out Of the class Of mino, Of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
h war. when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. Il 10 the height OF dc.
honor-even murder-to poison the
water supply Of country. 10 II any
better to poison the food supply? II
Ii time that the public mind should
develop a conscience In this direction "
Speaking Of Reef 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 1.343, 343
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. So PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, II per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. o.
1906: "a total Of 147,0OO pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
during the past weekly under the 81.
pervlslOn Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4,0S3 pounds Of governmental.
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 unit for
human consumption during the past
three mOnths--since the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
BY order Of the misslOner-have
reached immense proportions. much un.
1T food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats 40 show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye. are now condemned. Ta.
cilities for microscopic laboratory sx.
animation have not yet been restored.
1.-THE Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned and destroyed 80 parts
Of beef carcasses, hogs and 0 cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
1.-THE total stock yards condemnat atoms
amounted to l70.006 pounds"
"Parts Of beef carcasses I"
In other words II has been and Ia
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumOrs and let the rest OF
the carcass 90 to the people for food
And yet We call ourselves civilized.
The Beef ,rrus, will find 1t hard
10 get resting place when the PEG.
pie Of this country rise against 1t,
as they surely will. The people of the
whole world are crying for Its exter.
minatiOn.
| ~
An average Of $4,000 pounds of dis.
eased meat Is condemned every week by
Chicago Health Department inspectors
In butcher shops and grocery and de.
partment stores "inside the Union
loop"
II this great amount. Of tubercular,
cancsrous and maggoty material can be
found by the inspectors and destroyed
"inside the loop" small territory
bounded BY the river, Van Buren, street,
Wabash and Fifth avenues how many
million pounds are sold 70 the public
and consumed In the vast territory out.
side the loopi
This 10 q very pertinent QUaolion.
That $1,000 pounds Of diseased meat
can escape stockyards inspection every
week and and itself into department
and other stores "insids the loon"
should sufncs to call attention 10 the
vast amount Of poisonous food that @.
capes inspection ct the stockyasds and
10 sold outside the loop.
Facts az hetA end lU1sas mo -