Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

Tuberculosis 10 becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products aflilcted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hlndrance, 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.. n. d. Dudley was adopt.
ed, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disease It shall be made known
70 the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child IRE 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 at the examine
tion.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from tho 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 II served.
The statement that there IRE $1,000
cvnsumptives In Chicago was mads ut
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 B0nrd OF Health to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis Ii Beef disease.
1t Is not hereditary.
1t Ii not contracted from Impure air.
1t II contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordld and conscienccless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tuber.
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 Ii u day Of reckoning for these
barons Of blood and tyranH Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe as well rs
America will be too hot to hold them.
The Beef Trust may control govern.
ment inspection.
But the Insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago nspectors-only II In oil
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention to
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin OF Octo.
ber %. 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"
'"They also condemned and destroyed
3,O93 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 IRE rectihed how many thOus.
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are at this moment harborlng
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 3,035, 900 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 WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
Commenting upon this condition
Continues Commissioner Whelan),
American Medicine December 90,
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 60 a step farther and find
out who is responsible for this moral
Obliquity.
att is well known that c0mbina.
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
coStrol the food supply, brought ix., q
direct relation to public health.
"'It ls high time that this n utter
be taken out OF the class OF mino, of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
10 war. when oil kinds OF brutality are
1nctionsd. II 70 tie height Of a.. ,