Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-31
lit Has Fought Every Effort to Have Dates Placed Upon
Its Canned Goods, and Has Combatted Every Attempt
to Make Pay Costs Of Inspection
Now it Has Raised the Price of the Food Products of
the Country and Its Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record.

saias tunors "trimmed out" Peady 10
be sWt hs1o seeaiA.
Spsa1s1ag q the 2.S0k00n SECONDS Of
food condaaunsG n 1866 hv Chicago
Heu,Gh Depas@meut inspectors. d.. q
J. wiyaIsn, Heaiti Commissioner, sayU
IN his annnal report:
"nfGhTY PER CENT OF TIM
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED on
ACCOUNT or TUBEROULOSIS."
Commenting upon c,ss CONDITION
(cont1naes Commissioner Wheaan),
American Medicine December q,
says: One stands aslsast at the crimi.
nal cuptdity which will induce men to
sttenpt b sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspeetipg community. Il n now
In order to 20 q seep farther and and
out who n responsible for this moral
obliquity.
cit 10 weh known that oombtua.
tions Of tl,e larger meat dealers hswe
existed In the past to the end Of rals.
Ing the price Of food stuffs beyond the
point 10 which healthy composition
would reduce ti,en. The outcry has
always been In protsst against TIN In.
creased cost Of living, but heee for the
esst time are tie combinations which
coskroi To food supply, beu1gSt ta1> q
direct relation to pubic healtn.
at 10 high time that this n~tter
be taken out Of the class Of mInN of.
fcnses AND THE DEALDRs THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
hight OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
b war, when Ill kinds Of brutality ara
sanctioned. Il u IN hsisht oe a..
honor-eveu murdsNto poison the
water supply a a country. IL It any
bettar to poison the food supplyf II
h time that the public mind should
develop conscience in this direction
Speaking Of Bscf Trust tubercuiosis
read the following from the Health DE-
partmsnt Bulletin. November 4, 1906:
"rhe total amount Of meats con-
demned during the period was 1.343,348
pounds. OF the principal causes OF
condemnation. 60 PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, II per cent for
actinomy c0sds-kimpy jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin. Dec. Q.
1906: "A total Of 141,00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
(during the past weekly under the ~.
petvisiOn OF the department inspectors
ut the UNiOn Stock Yards. This In.
clutlos 4,0e3 pounds VI gOvernment.in.
spected cut meats slsipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and cunning"
Health Department Bulletin, Novem.
Der II, 1905:
Although ti,e cosdesnnati On and d.
str'sction Of food supplies uniit for
human consumption during the pest
three mOnths-since the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August 7 ult.
By order a the Commissioner have
reached Immense proportionA much un.
flt food sui reaches the market Only
such animals and nests - show grvos
pathoaogse conditions, recognizable b
the naked ~, ars nov condamued. ~.
cilitias Tor microscopic laboratory ~.
animation have not ~ ben RESTORED.
-fhs Union Steck Yards city inspsc-
tors condemned and Destroyed 50 par6
of besf eaFsaaBss. 3 hop and Q cattis
WHICH HAD BEEN PA60DD BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"Tin Wtal stock yards eoodsmnatious
amounted 70 l7d.S06 posAdA"
parts Of ~ easoaanasr'
In oGtsr words n hes been and =
III psactscs 70 cut out the cancers and
tuhsvculss tuu,Ors and Ut the rest Of
ths carcass % - ths people for fsodi
And ~ We call ourselves eivilissd.
The Bsaf 4suA Will and Il hArd
b 81 . resting paaes VIXEN ths peo
pc OF this couptxy rtss a0aiast It
q thaV surely Will. Tue psopas Of he
whole world are crying ter ~ sxtss.
minsti0u.
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sased DsAk y ssnAllnnad SRoy ~ b
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y bUesas shaps I'D Uesasy end -
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