Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-06
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tuniy to Get All It Wants
Of /.
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

honor-4ven murder-to poison the
water supply Of a country. IL II any
better to poison the food supplyf Il
10 time that the public mind should
develop conscience in this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health De
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1906:
"The total amount Of meats con-
demned during the period was 1,S43, ,348
2oundA OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. a. PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS. - per cent for
actinomycosis- -lumpy jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin. Dec. o.
1906: ~ total Of 147,99O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
| during the past week. under the 81.
pervision Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4,DS3 pounds Of gOvernment-in.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trndc and canning"
Health Department Bulletin, Novem.
ber II, 1905:
although the condemnation and dc.
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 Commissioner have
reached immense proportions, much un.
at food still reaches the market. Oaly
such animals and meats as show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye. are now condemned. Fa.
cilitics for microscopic laboratory x.
animation have not yet been restored.
"The Union Stock Yards city inspec-
tors condemned aud destroyed 30 parts
Of beet carcanscs, 3 hogs and Q cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'.rhe total stock yards condemnation
amounted to l70.Sos pounds"
"Parts Of beef carcassesv
In other words Il has been and In
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tuin0rs and let the rest of
the carcass 20 To the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
Health Department Bulletin, Dec
10. 1906:
Tho department has made q new
ruling In regard to 'lumpy jaw Of
actinomycotic animals. Hereafter oil
animals that show, on post-mortsM
examination, . degeneration Of thu
lesion, with cavity formation, contain
ing pus, will be condemned and %
stroyed.
"Heretofors only those with q gen
sral infection were destroyed"
Health Department Bulletin, Nov
20, 1905:
"Stockyards inspection Of meats fol
Chicago retail markets was vesumst
BY order Of the Cominissioner ol
Health on Aug. Z, uit., With two do
partment inspectors employed. o.
Oct. Z three additional inspectors wert
put to work, and Oct 10 authority
was given BY the Finance Committs,
Of the city council for the employ
ment Of six more.
"Betwecn Aug. Z and Nov. so ,
grand total Of 2,7Sl,lW pounds o.
food supplies were condemned and do
stroysd 40 unwholesome. diseased Of
otherwise unft for human food"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec
10, 1906:
"FOll0wing is summary of unGi
food condemned and destroyed during
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards-292 cat
tie. weight l52,6O0 pounds; 382 hogs
weight bS,S3S pounds; 10 calves
weight 6l6 pounds; ~ sheep. weigh
255 pounds; l0,llS pounds cut meats
Total, $50 pounds.
AT city retail markets-lS,0e ,0el
pounds OF fish; SO calves, I hogs. 2,
600 pounds; 2 cattle, ! sheep, 80;
pounds Of poultry and dressed meat
and vegetables, l,49l pounds. Total
2i,1l4 pounds.
"Aggrsgate condemnati0ns Of una
food during the week, 2S2. -
pounds"
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The Beef Trust will be Investigate,
by the next Legislature.
And what Q showing up there will
be!
The investigation Of the INSURANCE
companies by the New York Legisla
ture will not be a circumstance to II.
Chicago's multi.millionaires grow
rich selling disease and poison to tin
people will s~t their Just dues then.
The Chicago Newspaper Trust can
not save them.
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The hagle will keep up its fight O.
the cattle and pack.Ag people until tn
sale Of animals afflicted with canoe
and tubsrculoss q ssoppsd entirely.