Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-05
BEEF TRUST WARNING.
The Chicago Health Department Tells the
Public that Lumpy Jaw Beef Causes
Appendicitis.
The Chicago Eagle Has Made this
Contention for q Year and
Is Upheld.

The Health Department Of the city
Of Chicago has finally upheld the con.
tention Of The Chicago Eagle, main.
tainsd for over year, that lumpy Jaw
beef. cold BY Chicago packers to con.
sumers after the local ulcers had been
cut away, was the cause Of append.
eitis.
In . bulletin just issued BY Commits.
sioner Of Health Charles J. whalsn.
ths following warning to the public
appears:
In IL report 10 the council Of the
Chicago Medical Society last July, the
Committee Of the Society. appointed to
examine Into the sufnciency Of the "In.
sexuctious 10 Meat Inspectors" Of the
Health Department, with reference to
tAs protection Of the health Of the con.
sumsr and Of the public health. said,
- to actinomycosis, or ''lumpy Jaw :"
The Chicago regulations are distinctly
more severe than those Of other coun.
tzies. The committee holds
that the regulations 40 to condemnation
for abscesses opening into the digestive
o. respiratory tract are unnecessarily
severe In the absence Of secondary
symptoms. Otherwise the rules were
approved"
The results Of study Of actinomyco-
sis In the human being and In animals.
By the pathologists Of the Department
Laboratories, had led the commission.
q to supplement the original instruc-
lions concerning the inspection Of
''lumpy Jaw" cattle, with q special or.
der. reading as follows:
"Whils actinomycosiss IL usually con.
0ned to the head, and may be said, In
ooe sense. to be localized disease, and
while some inspectors condemn the part
Involved. I believe 1t Is safest and most
practicable TO condemn the entire cur.
cas- whenever the actinomycotic OBJ
scess opens into the mouth, pharynx,
larynx, or any part Of the digestive or
respiratory tract; or when the lymphat.
ic glands are Involved; or where there
are actinomycotic tumors In the lungs |;
or where the lcsions have become gen.
eralised, since generalization In acti.
nomycosis appears to run very atypic
course, making the detection Of all fOci
inside the muscle very difficult. There.
fore, the entire carcass il to be con.
demned.
In cases where the actinomycotic
LESSONS are positively localized, the In.
fected part may be cut away and the
remainder Of the carcass used.
These instructions apply only to
'lumpy jaw There may be other rea-
sons why you should want to condemn
q carcass, and II is then matter OF
Judgment for you and your men.
"But you should never hesitate II you
believe the animal to be not tit for
human food"
That the Departments regulations,
based upon the pathologic study re.
ferred TO, are not unnecessarily Sc.
we're" receives additional proof in
recent address and discussion before
the Medical Society OF London, Eng,
reported in the Lancet of October II,
inst. (pase 1867. The subject OF the
address was actinomycosls as an ex-
citant OF appendicitis, and the facts
adduced certainly indicate one probable
cause Of the Increase OF the latter dis
ease-appendicitis.
The essaylst, 7. ii. Kelloch, first
pointed out how much more frequently
actinomycosls was recognized "since
more modern methods Of examination
had been emplOyed'-as in the studies
OF the Chicago Departments patholo-
gists. THE affection was formerly be- |
lieved TO attack the jaws, the liver
and the lungs almost exclusively In
persons whose lives were spent In the
1t was now often recognized In |
other parts OF the body or in town |
dwellsrs, The star or ray formation
was not always present, and its ab.
sence must frequently have led to a
negative diagnosis when the affection
might have been recognized by proper
staining. As the fungus or strepto.