Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-07

eular tumors "trimnred out" ready to
lie cut Into steaks
Speaking Of the a036. ON mounds Of
food condemned n 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DR.. G.
J. 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 %,
says: One stands aghast at the crimi.
nal cupidlty which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectlng community. It Is now
In order to 20 a step farther and find
out who Ii responsible for this moral
Obliqulty.
att Is well known that combina.
tons Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails.
Ing the price Of food stufis beyond the
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry has
always boon In protest against the In.
creased cost Of living, but here for the
erst time are the combinations which
control the food supply, brouctt 1T, q
direct relation to public health.
att ID high time TINT thu u 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
81 war, when oil kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. Il Ia the height Of die.
honor-even murder-to poison the
water supply Of country. II II any
better to poison the food supplyf II
In time that the public mind should
develop a conscience In this direction "
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health DE.
partnent Bulletin. November 4, 1905 :
"Tbe total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1.3a3,343
,2ounds OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. - PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, ~ per cent for
actinomyc jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin. Dec. o.
1906: ~ total Of 147,OOO pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
During the past weekly under the su.
pervlslon OF the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4,0SI pounds OF governmental.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
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Health Department Bulletin. Noveni.
Der II, 1906:
although the condemnation and de-
struction Of food supplies unnt for
human consumption during the past
three mOnths-since the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
BY order Of the mlssiOner-have
reached Immense proportions, much un.
ut food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats a. show grOss
pathologic conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye. are now condemned. Fa.
cllities for microscopic laboratory *.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned and destroyed 80 parts
Of beef carcasses, 3 hogs and o cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'The total stock yards condemnat lions
amounted to l76.SOS pounds"
parts OF beef carcasses I"
In other words 1t has been and Ii
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumOrs and let the rest Of
the carcass 60 to the people for food |!
And yet We call ourselves civilized.
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The Beef '~rus, will find It hard
70 get resting place when the PEG
pie OF this country rise against 1t,
As they surely will. The people of the
whole world are crying for its exter.
mination.
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