Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-16

The Health Department of the city
OF Chicago has finally upheld the con.
tention of The Chicago Eagle, main.
tained for over year, that lumpy Jaw
beef. sold by Chicago packers to con.
sumers after the local ulcers had been
cut away. was the cause Of append.
citis.
In a bulletin issued by Commissioner
OF Health Charles J. Whalen, the fol.
lowing warning to the public appears:
In Its report to the council Of the
Chicago Medical Society last July. the
Committee OF the Society, appointed to
examine into the sufiiclency Of the I'm.
structions to Meat Inspectors" Of the
Health Department, with reference to
the protection OF the health Of the con.
sumer and OF the public health, said.
as to nctlnomycOsis, or "lumpy jaws"
",rhe Chicago regulations are distinctly
more severe than those Of other coun.
tries. Tho committee holds
that the regulations as to condemnation
for assesses opening into the digestive
or respiratory tract are unnecessarily
severe In the absence OF secondary
symptoms. Otherwise the rules were
approved"
The results Of study Of actinomyco.
sis In tho human being and In animals,
BY the pathOlogists Of the. Department
Laboratories. had led the commission.
er to supplement the original instruc.
tions concerning the inspection Of
"lumpy Jaw" cattle. with a special or.
der. reading as follows:
"Whlle actinomycosiss IL usually con.
fined to the head, and may be said, In
one sense, to be localized disease, and
while some inspectors condemn the part
involved, l believe 1t Ii safest and most
practicable TO condemn the entire car.
cass whenever the actlnomycOtic oh.
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 electromagnetic tumors In the lungs
or where the LESSONS have become gen
eralized, since generalization In acti'
uomycosls appears to run very atypic
course, making the detection OF all fOci
inside the muscle very difficult. There.
fore, the entire carcass Is to be con.
demned.
In cases where the actinOmycotic
LESSONS are positively localized, the In.
fec,ed 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
carcass, and it is then matter OF
Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate If you
believe the animal TO be not lit for
human food"
That the Departments regulations,
based upon the pathologlc study re-
ferred 10, are not unnecessarily Sc
we're" receives additional proof in a
recent address and discussion before
the Medical Society OF London, Eng,
reported in the Lancet Of October IL,
inst. page 936). The subject of the
address was actinomycosis as an eX-
hAC iaSe'
adduced certainly indicate one probable
cause of the Increase OF the latter dis
ea,e-appendlc!tls.
The essayist, 4. II. Kelloch, first
pointed out how much more frequently
actlnomycosls was recognized "since
more modern methods OF examination
had been empl0yed"-as in the studies
OF the Chicago Departments patholo-
gists The affection was formerly be-
lieyed 10 attack the jaws, the liver
and the lungs almost exclusively In
persons whose lives were spent In the
country 1t was now often recognized In
other parts Of the body or In town
dwellers. The star or ray formation
was not always present, and lts alb.
ssnce must frequently have led to a
sesative diagnosis when the affection
might have been recognized by proper
stsininG A. the fungus or strspto-