Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-05
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.


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, Is 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
has Just issued strong circular con.
tanning recommendation to municlpali-
ties concerning the supervision and In.
spection of slaughter houses, packing
houses, etc.
The following extracts show how
hard the circular hits the city govern.
ment of Chicago:
"The Illinois state Board Of Health,
BY special resolution, adopted at a resu.
lar meeting, held in Chicago June 10th
and 2ist, 1906, urgently recommends
10 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,
the enactment and enforcement Of ordi.
nances providing for the supervision
and the regular and systematic inspec.
ton of all slaughter houses, packing
houses, storage houses, markets, Gel.
lars and oil other establishments used
for the preparation, manufacture. stor.
age or sale of food intended for hu.
man consumption.
..rhe 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 conscien.
tlous efforts of health officials acting
under the powers conferred upon them
by the statutes.
'"rhc people Of each municipality
have the right to expect that the OIL
ciais 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 80 liberal In their
construction as to give to the munici.
pallty full power to control all Of those
things which may In any way effect the
health Of the people.
"Under the provisions OF an act to
provide for the incorporation OF cities
and villages. approved April 10. 1877,
(Ievised Statutes, Chapter "a. Section
G2), the councils In cities and the prcsi'
dent ana the board Of trustees In VII.
lagos are empowered to regulate the
sale Of meat, poultry, fish, butter.
cheese, lard, vegetables and all other
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 a nuisance and to abate same
and to fine all who permit nulsances
to exist; to appoint board OF health
and prescribe Its powers ana duties !;
TO DO ALL ACTS. AND MAKE ALI.
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH OR TO PREVENT DIS.
EASE; to direct location and regulate
the management and construction Of
hacking 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 nauseOus place to cleanse ana
abatc or remove same ana to regulate
Its location. Under the provisions Of
the same law, municipalities are EN-.
powered to Impose fines, not exceeding
500 for each Offense, or Imprisonment,
not exceeding six months, for the viola.
ton of any OF It's ordinances"
aside from the specific provisions Of
the law, quoted above, the one pro.
vision, empowering the municipality
ITO DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALL
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH AND PREVENT DISEASE
gives ample authority for the local OIL.
cials to undertake the supervision and
systematic inspection Of those places
In which food for human consumption
Ia 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"
"Anlmal food Is particularly suscep.
tible to bacteria! action and to decOm-
position which Is fastened by killing
and handling In filthy slaughter houses
or by improper refrigeration and stor'
age"
"MEAT FROM DISEASED AMI.
MAILS, TOO FREQUENTLY SLAUGH-
TERED FOR HUMAN FOOD, MAY
BE 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 is not to be re.
lied upon."
"In view of these facts, 1t Is the duty
O; the health officials of all municipal.
ties to establish such supervision and
inspection as will render impossible the
maintenance of unsanitary slaughter
houses and packing houses. the killing
Of diseased animals or the sale OF
meats and other foods which, by their
original character, or changes which
have taken place On them, are unfit for