Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
The illinois State Board Of Health
Hits Both Of Them Hard in
Circular.
Duty of the City Administration with
Regard to Meat Inspection Is
Very Plain.

The new government law. as every |
body knows, does not provide for the
inspection of meat consumed In Chicago
and Illinois.
The strange apathy Of the Chicago
authorities in the matter OF Beer trust
violations of the law, Is arousing the
attention of the entire country.
The flooding of Chicago ana the
state of Illinois with lumry Jaw, tub
CIRCULAR and cancerous beef Is causing
widespread indignation.
The Illinois state Board Of Health
has lust issued a strong circular con.
tanning recommendations to municipali'
ties concerning the supervision and In
spection of slaughter houses, packing
houses, etc.
The following extracts show how
hard the circular hits the city govern
ment Of Chicago:
.sThe Illinois state Board OF Health
By special resolution, adopted at q regu'
lar meeting, held In Chicago June 10Th
and 21st, 1905, urgently recommends
70 the mayors and councils Of all cities
anu the presidents and boards OF trus'
tees Of oil villages, and to all ooher
health officials In all parts Of the state
the enactment and enforcement OF ord''
nances providing for the supervision
ard the regular and systematic inspec'
tion Of all slaughter houses, packing
houses, storage houses, markets, Gel.
lars and all other establishments used
for the preparation, manufacture, stor'
age or sale Of food intended for hu'
man consumption.
..rbe health Of the people 10 largely
dependent upon the purity, quality ana
cleanliness Of their food and these
may be controlled and guaranteed to
the people only through the conscien'
t,ous eiYorts Of health officials acting
under the powers conferred upon them
by the statutes.
"rhc people Of each municipality
have the right to expect that the ON
Gals whom they have entrusted with
the enforcement OF the law, Will give
them every possible protection PROVIDED
ty the law, and the statutes Of the
State Of Illinois are so liberal In their
construction as to give to the munich
pality full power to control all OF those
things which may In any way eject the
health Of the people.
"Under the provisions Of an act 10
proylde for the incorporation OF cities
and villages, approved April III. 1917
(Reyised Statutes, Chapter "a. Section
62). the councils In cities and the presi'
dent and the board Of trustees In VII
laaes are empowered to regulate the
sale Of meat, poultry. fish, butter
cheese, lard, vegetables ana oil othe!
provisions; to regulate the sale OF
bread and to prescribe Its quality; 70
provide for the inspection Of oil articles
OF food; to declare what shall con
stitute nuisance and to abate same
and to fine all who permit nu'sahee'
to exist; to appoint board OF healti
and prescribe Its powers and duties
no DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALI
POPULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH OR no PREVENT DIS
EASE: to direct location and regulate
the management and construction o
hacking houses either within the hmit'
OF the corporation or within one Ml'
from its boundaries; to compel TIN
owner Of any grocery or any unwho'e
some or nauseOus place to cleanse am
abate or remove same and to regulate
its location. Under the provisions o
the same law, municipalities are EN-
powered to impose fines, not exceedinl
5000 for each oifense, or Imprisonment
mot exceeding elk months, for the viola
tion OF any Of it, ordinances"
aside from the specific provisions o
the law, quoted above. the one pro
vision, empowering the munlcipaat:
srO DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALL
REGULATIONS no PROMOTE
HEALTH AND PREVENT DISEASE
gives ample authority for the local OH
Gals to undertake the supervision AM
systematic inspection of those place
In which food for human consumpt'o
IL either prepared. MANUFACTURER
stored or offered for sale. However
the specific provisions Of the stature
remove all doubt as to the limits
which the municipality may 90 IN I'll
protection Of the health Of the people.
animal food Is particularly suscel
tible to bacterial action and to decOn
position which n FASTENED by killf,
and handling In filthy slaughter house
or by improper refrigeration and sto'
age" 49,,
"MEAT FROM DISEASED AN
MAILS, TOO FREQUENTLY sLAUGt
TERED FOR HUMAN FOOD, MA
BE PRODUCTIVE OF WIDESPREAD
DISEASE AMONG THOSE VIII
CONSUME IT."
1.-THE oft repeated statement thi
cooking will remove the poisonous pro-
critics Of spoiled meat Is not to be r
lied upon"
ain view Of these facts. 1t is the dui
O; the health officials of all municipal
ties to establish such supervision an
inspection ~ will render Impossible Il
maintenance Of unsanitary Maught'
houses and packing houses, sac killlr
Of diseased animals or TIE sale I
meats and other foods viii n. by the
original character, or changes VOL
have taken place On them, are unit 4
human consumption"