Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-21
It Has Fought Every Effort to Have Dates Placed
Its Canned Goods, and Has Combated Every Ate,
to Make It 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

cular tumors trimmed out" rssdy 10
be cut lntO steals
Speaking Of the ao36.0on pounds Of
food condemned n 1906 By Chicago
Health Department. inspectors. DR.. @.
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner. says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSlS."
commenting upon oils condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan),
american Medicine December %,
says: One stands agliast ut tho crimi.
nal cupldity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
IN unsuspecting community. It Ii now
In order to 60 a step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
obllQulty.
att Ia 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 to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry has
always been In protest against the In.
creased cost OF living, but here for the
arst time are the combinations which
control the food supply. brought w, Q
direct relation to public health.
"It 10 high time that thlS natter
b taken out Of the class Of minol Of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THD
eight OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
h war, when oil kinds Of brutality are
0nctioned. II 10 The height Of az.
h0n0r-even murdsr-to poison the
water supply Of Q country. 10 Il any
better to poison the food supply3 Il
b time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction"
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health De-
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1905 |:
"The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1,3l3,34
pounds. OF the principal causes of
condemnation. 85 PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, II per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. 0.
1906: "A total OF l47.0OO pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
during the past week) under the su.
pervisi0n Of the department inspectors
at the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 1858 pounds Of government.in.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
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Health Department Bulletin. Novem.
Der II, 1906:
although the condemnation and de-
struction OF food supplies unit for
human consumption during the past
three mOntlls-slnce the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
BY order Of the Commissioners
reached immense proportions, much un-
fit food still reaches the market. Only
such animals ana meats a. show gross
pathOlOgic conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa-
cilities for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
1.-THE Union Stock Yards city inspec-
tors condemned aud destroyed 80 parts
OF beef carcasses, 3 hogs and cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"The total stock yards COMBINATIONS
amounted to l7G.sOs pounds"
"Parts of beef carcasses!"
In other words 1t has been and Ia
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubarcular tumors and let the rest Of
the carcass go to the people for food I
And yet We call ourselves civilized.
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The Beef trust will find It hard
10 get a resting place when the PEG.
pie Of this country rise against 1t,
az they surely will. The people Of the
whole World are crying for it, exter.
minatiOn.
%eA
An average Of 10000 pounds Of dis.
eased meat Is condemned every week by
Chicago Health Department inspectors
In butcher shops and grocery and de-
partment stores "inside the Union
loop"
II this great amount. of tubercular,
cancerOus and maggoty material can be