Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-16
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of L.
Health Department Finds Cattle in
Trust Coolers with Tuber-
culOsis Trimmed Out.

Tuberculosis Is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afflicted 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 DIR. r. d. Dudley was adopt.
ed, which provides that when a 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 examine.
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mcnt reports that State aud 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 IRE $1,000
consumptives In Chicago was made 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 Board Of Health to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis is a Beef disease.
1t is not hereditary.
1t Is not contracted from Impure air.
1t Is contracted by eating bud meat
sold by sordld ana consciencele~s men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tuber.
culosls 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 Ia guilty!
There II day Of reckoning for these
bnr0ns Of blood ana tyrants Of the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their track until Europe az well as
America will be too hot to hold them.
The Beef Trust may control govern.
ment inspection.
Hut the Insignificant number of city
Of Chicago inspectOrs-only II In all
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to call attention to
facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo.
bcr %. 1906. 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"
'I'hey also condemned and destroyed
3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City. having
passed government inspection It those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
II few Of the governmental Omis.
sions are rectided 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 3,035,OO pounds of
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. G.
J. Wlalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIE |
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON |
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
Commenting upon this condition
continues Commissioner Whelan),
American Medicine December %,
says: One stands aghast at the crimi.
lal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
IN unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
n order to go step farther and find
'ut who Is responsible for this moral
'bllqulty.
"'It Is well known that cOmbina.
ions Of the larger meat dealers have
'xisted In the past to the end Of rails
ne the price Of food stuffs beyond the
'oint to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry has
lways been In protest against the In.
reased cost of living, but here for the
.rst time are the combinations which
oN.rol the food supply, brought iS.y a
irect relation to public health.
ut IL high time that thu n 1tter
e taken out OF the class OF mlno, of.
enses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
ELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
IGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
war, when all kinds OF brutality are
DnctiOned, II Ia the height Of dis.