Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-23

Tuberculosis 10 becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products aflilcted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hindrance, 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 DR.. r. ID. Dudley was adopt.
ed. which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease 1t 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 examina-
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber-
crlosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mcnt reports that State and govern.
mcnt inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosis beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public II served.
The statement that there IRE 1900
cvnsumptives In Chicago was made at
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit
tee. Dr. Sachs spoke, urging drastic
action by the Board ot Health to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis IL n Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid and c0nscienceless men
who think more 0f dollars than they
do Of human lives.
| II any Of your relatives have tnber
culosis you know who to blame.
The homes saddened by the deaths
Of husbands. wives, fathers. mothers
brothers, sisters, sons and daughters.
The people poverty stricken BY con-
sumption,
Know who Ii guilty!
There Ia day Of reckoning for those
barons Of blood and tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
tlicir track until Europe M we'll 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 oil
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention t.
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo'
Der 2S. 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 BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
'"Thcy also condemned and destroyed
8.O03 pounds of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis aud 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 recti6ed how many thous.
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are at 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 3,935. 600 pounds OF
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. c.
]. 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 23
says: 'One stands aghast at the crimi-
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 Is responsible for this moral
Obliqulty.
"'It is well known that combina.
tlons OF the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end OF rails.
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
e,st time are the combinations which
coa:rol the food supply, brouga. lS.- q
direct relation to public health.
"It 10 high time that THE n utter
he taken out OF the class OF minOl Of
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
To war. when all kinds Of brutality ere
0nctionsd. II y the hsight o( a.,