Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-19
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunit to Get All It Wants
Of /,
Health Department Finds Cattle In
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

Tuberculosis Is becoming epidemic.
The Beef Trust products afiilcted with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hlndrance, when past inspection"
The school management committee OF
the Board Of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and DIR. Il. d. Dudley was adopt
ell, which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child Is affected with
the disense 1t shall be made known
to the superintendent Of schools by the
principal. After the parents Of the
child are notified the pupil will be ex.
amlncd by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam.
lily physician present at the examinn-
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosls from meat must suffer.
We cnn see from the Health Depart.
mcnt reports that State and govern
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosls beef from getting into the cool.
ers from which the public IL served.
The statement that there are 1900
cUnsumptives In Chicago was made at
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds,
chairman OF the tuberculosis commit.
tee. DIR. Sachs spoke. urging drastic
action by the Bonrd Of Health to stamp
out the disease.
Tuberculosis is a Beef disease.
1t is not hereditary.
| II is not contracted from impure air.
| 1t IL contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sordid and consclcnceless men
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have trbcr
culOsls you know who to blame.
The homes saddened by the deaths
Of husbands. wives, fathers. mothers
brothers, sisters. sons ana daughters,
The people poverty stricken by con
sumption,
Know who Is guilty!
There II day Of reckoning for these
bnrons Of blood and tyrants OF the
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upon
their truck until Europe as well as
America will be too hot to hold them
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the insignificant number Of city
Of Chicago inspectOrs-Only II In nj
although now strangely discontinued
was still sufficient to Gull attention t
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of OctO
Der %. 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the UnIor
Stock Yards condemned FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
'"rhey also condemned and destroyed
3,O03 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection at those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have.
IL few Of the governmental OmIs
siOns are rectltied how many thOus
ands are not?
i How many homes In Europe and
America are ut this moment harborlnl
| 80 mi, II, 81. lot
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks of meat hanging IN
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber
cular tumOrs trimmed out" ready T.
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3.035OOO pounds OF
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. c.
]. Whalen, Health Commissioners, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS."
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan)
American Medicine, December 23,
says: One stands aghast ut the crimi.
nal cupldlty which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to go step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
oblqulty.
"'It IL 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 stuffs beyond the
point 70 which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry has
always been In protest against the In
creased cost Of living, but here for the
s:st time are the combinations which
coS:rol the food supply, brought .S.r =
direct relation 10 public health.
"'It IL high time that this nj utter
be- taken out Of the class OF mlnm Of
fens'a AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT or PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
"a war, when all kinds OF brutality are
vnctloned. II is the height OF dis.