Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-26

ctilar tumOrs "trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks
Speaking Of the 3.035.O0n bounds of
food condemned n 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DIR. G.
j. Whalen. Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner whelan)
American Medicine. December 90,
says: One stands aghast mt the criml.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectlng community. tits now
In order to 20 u step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
Obliqulty.
"'lt Is we'll known TINT combina.
tions 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
e-st time are the combinations which
coN'rol the food supply, brouc"t ls., q
direct relation to public health.
"'It Ii high time that thu n. utter
be taken out Of the class Of mIno, OF.
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
40 war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. Il n the height Of dis.
honor-even murder-to poison the
water supply Of country. II II any
better to poison the food supply? II
is 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.SA3,3A3
2ounds OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. ~ PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOsIs, y per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
~SA
Health Department Bulletin, Dec. 0.
1905: "a total Of 147,O0O pounds Of
meats was condemned and DESTROYED
(durlng the past week. under the 81.
pervlsiOn Of the department inspectors
Mt the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 1858 pounds Of governmental.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
Health Department Bulletin, Novem.
Der II, 1905:
"Although the condemnation and de.
struction Of food supplies unit for
human consumption during the past
three mOnths-since the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
BY order Of the COmmisslO lOner--have
reached immense proportions, much un.
Ut food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats as show gross
pathOlOgIc conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa.
cillties for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec-
tors condemned and destroyed 30 parts
OF beef carcasses, 3 hogs and q cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"The total stock yards condemnat tlons
amounted to l76.S0S pounds"
"Parts OF beef carcasses!"
In other words 1t has been and Is
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tuberculnr tumOrs ana let the rest of |
the carcass go to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
~
The Beef ,rrus, will find It hard
70 get resting place when the peO.
pie OF this country rise against 1t,
Is they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for Its exter.
minatiOn.
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