Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-16
The illinois State Board Of Health
Hits Both Of Them Hard in
Circular.
Duty of the City Administration with
Regard to Meat Inspection Is
Very Plain.

The new government law, a. every
body knows does not provide for the
inspection Of meat consumed In Chicago
and Illinois.
The strange apathy Of the Chicago
authorities In the matter Of Beef Trust
violations Of the law, 10 arousing the
attention Of the entire country.
The flooding Of Chicago and the
State Of Illinois with lumry Jaw, tub.
CIRCULAR and cancerous beef Is causing
widespread indignation.
The Illinois State Board Of Health
issued Il strong circular contain.
Ing recommendations to municipali.
ties concerning the supervision and In.
spectlon Of slaughter houses, packing
houses, etc.
Tho following extracts show how
hard tl,e circular hits the city govern.
ment Of Chicago:
'.rhe Illinois state Board Of Health.
By special resolution. adopted at q regu.
lar meeting, held In Chicago June 10th
and 2ist, 1905, urgently recommends
to the mayors and councils Of all cities
anu the presidents and boards Of trus.
tees Of all Villages, and to oil other
health officials In all parts Of the State.
che enactment and enforcement Of ordi.
nances providing for the supervision
and the regular and systematic inspec.
tion Of all slaughter houses, packing
houses, storage houses, markets. Gel.
lars and all other establishments used
for the preparation, manufacture. stor'
age or sale Of food intended for hu.
man consumption.
'.rhc health Of the people Is largely
dependent upon the purity. quality and
cleanliness Of their food and these
may be controlled and guaranteed to
the people only through the ccnscien.
tious efforts of health officials acting
under the powers conferred upon them
by the statutes.
''rhe people Of each municipality
have the right to expect that the OIL
ciah whom they have entrusted with
the enforcement Of the law, will give
them every possible protection provided
BY the law, and the statutes Of the
state Of Illinois are 20 liberal In their
construction ~ to give to the munici.
paiity full power to control all Of those
things which may in any way eject the
health Of the people.
"Under the provisions Of an act to
provide for the incorporation Of cities
and villages. approved April 10. 1872.
(Revised Statutes. Chapter -. Section
02), the councils In cities and the presi'
dent and the board Of trustees In VII
lagos are empowered to regulate the
sale OF meat, poultry, Ash, butter,
cheese, lard, vegetables and oil otner
provisions; to regulate the sale OF
bread and to prescribe its quality; to
provide for the inspection Of all articles
Of food; to declare what shall con-
stitute nuisance and to abate same
and to fine all who permit nuisances
to exist; to appoint board OF health
and prescribe it,, powers and duties
no DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALL
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH OR no PREVENT DIS.
EASE; to direct location and regulate
the management and construction q
packing houses either within the limits
OF the corporation or within one mile
from its boundaries; to compel the
owner Of any grocery or any unwhole.
some or uause0us place to cleanse and
abate or remove same and to regulate
it, location. Under the provisions OF
the same law, municipalities are en-
powered to impose fines, not exceeding
5000 for each ofiense. or Imprisonment,
not exceeding six months, for the VIOLA
ton Of any Of it, ordinances"
"Aside from the specific provisions Of
the law, quoted above. the one pro.
vision, empowering the municipality
TO DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALL
REGULATIONS no PROMOTE
HEALTH AND PREVENT DlSHASE''
sives ample authority for the local ON.
Gals 10 undertake the supervision and
systematic inspection Of those places
In which food for human consumption
II either prepared. manufactured
stored or offered for sale. However.
the specific provisions Of the statutes
remove all doubt as to the limits to
which the municipality may 60 In the
protection Of the health Of the people"
"Animal food IL particularly suscep.
tible to bacterial action and to decOm.
position which IL FASTENED by killing
and handling In filthy slaughter houses
or by improper refrigeration and stor'
age"
MAILS, TOO FREQUENTLY sLAUGH.
TERED FOR HUMAN FOOD. MAY
Re PRODUCTIVE OF WIDESPREAD
DISEASE AMONG THOSE WHO
CONSUME IT."
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1.-THE oft repeated statement that
cooking will remove the poisonous prop
critics Of spoiled meat IL not to be re-
lied upOn."
"In view OF these facts, It Is the duty
O; the health officials of all municipal.
ties to establish such supervision and
inspectlon az will render impossible the
maintenance Of unsanitary daughter
houses and packing houses, 'Ae killing
Of diseased animals or t~e sale OF
meats and other foods whit b. by their
original character, or changes ws.ch
have taken place In them. are unit tor
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