Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-09

honor-even murder--to poison the
water supply Of country. Is 1t any
better to poison the food supply? II
Is time that the public mind should
develop a conscience in this direction I"
Speaking of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health De.
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1905 !:
"The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1,343, 3,343
pounds. or the principal causes Of
condemnation. S5 PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, ~ per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw--and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. o.
1905: ~ total of 147,ODO pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
(during the past week. under the SUI
pervlsion Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludcs 4.0S3 pounds of governmental.
spected cut meats shipped from pack
Ing houses in the West for Chicago
city truue unu canning.
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Health Department Bulletin. Novem.
bcr II, 1905:
although the condemnation and de.
struction Of food supplies unfit for
human consumption during the past
three mOnths-since the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
BY order Of the CommlsslOner-ha
reached immense proportions, much un.
1T food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats as show gross
conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa.
cilities for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
"The Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned and destroyed 30 parts
OF beef carcasses, 3 hogs aud q cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED By
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"The total stock yards condemnation
amounted to 17G,SOS pounds"
parts Of beef carcasses
In other words 1t has been and II
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tuberculnr tumors and let the rest OF
the carcass 20 to the people for food!
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
10. 1905:
'"The department has made a new
ruling In regard to 'lumpy jaw or
actinomycOtic animals. Hereafter all
animals that show. on post.mortem
examination, a degeneration Of the
lesion, with cavity formation. contain.
Ing pus. will be condemned and dc.
str0yed.
Heretofore only those with q gen.
eral infection were destroyed"
Health Department Bulletin, Nov.
80, 1905:
"StOckyards inspection of meats for
Chicago retail markets was resumed
by order of the Commissioner of
Health on Aug. Z, uit., with two de-
partment inspectors employed. On
Oct. Z three additional inspectors were
put to work, and Oct. ID authority
was given by the Finance Committee
Of the city council for the employ.
ment Of six more.
Between Aug. z and Nov. 30
grand total OF 2.7Sl,l97 pounds of
food supplies were condemned and de-
stroyed as unwhOlesOme, diseased or
otherwise unfit for human food"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
10, 1905;
"FollOwlng Is n summary Of unfit
food condemned and destroyed during
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards-29e cat !
tie, weight l52,5O9 pounds; 3G2 hogs,
weight 5S,s3S pounds; 10 calves,
weight Gi5 pounds; 12 sheep, weight
s55 pounds: 1918 pounds cut meats.
Total, 23l,330 pounds.
AT city retail markets-1S, $50
pounds of fish; 80 calves, 4 hogs. D.
100 pounds; . cattle, sheep, 933
pounds of poultry and dressed meats
md vegetables, 1,40l pounds. Total,
.l,1l4 pounds.
Aggregate condemnations of unfit
'ood during the week, 252,444
pounds"
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The Beef Trust will be investigated
y the next Legislature.
And what showing up there will
e.
The investigation of the insurance
by the New York Legisla.
ure will not be Il circumstance to II.
Chicago's multi-millonaires grown
ich selling disease and poison to the
eople will g,t their sust dues then.
The Chicago Newspaper Trust can.
OF save them.
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The Eagle will keep up its fight on
ne cattle and packing people until the
lie of animals afflicted with cancer