Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-06
BEEF TRUST WARNING.
The Chicago Health Department Tells the
Public that Lumpy Jaw Beef Causes
Appendicitis.
The Chicago Eagle Has Made this
Contention for a Year and
Is Upheld.

The Health Department Of the city
Of Chicago has finally upheld the con.
esntion Of The Chicago Eagle, main.
tained for over q year, that lumpy Jaw
beef. sold BY Chicago packers to con.
sumers after the local ulcers had been
cut away, was the cause OF append.
citis.
In a bulletin issued by Commissioners
Of Health Charles J. whalen, the fol.
lowing warning to the public appears:
In its report to the council Of the
Chicago Medical Society last July, the
Committee Of the Society. appointed to
examine into the sufYiciency Of the I'm.
Gructions to Meat Inspectors" Of the
Health Department, with reference to
ths protection Of the health Of the con.
0umer and Of the public health, said,
- 10 actinomycosis, or "lumpy jaws"
The Chicago regulations are distinctly
moro severe than those Of other coun.
triss. The committee holds
that the regulations - to condemnation
for abscesses opening Into the digestive
@ respiratory tract are unnecessarily
osvese In the absence Of secondary
Vmptoms Otherwise the rules were
approved" -
Tns results OF study Of actinomyco-
- In the human being and In animals.
b the pathologists Of the Department
Laboratories, had led the commission.
q TO supplement the original instruc.
tioos concerning the inspection OF
'lumpy Jaw" cattle. with q special or.
81, reading - follows:
"While act1nomycosiss 70 usually con.
Ansd to the head, and may be said. In
sas sense. to b q iocallsed disease and
wAils some inspectors condemn the part
Involved. / believe It 10 safest and most
peacticabls 70 condemn the entire car
esss whsnsvee the actinomycotic OBJ
oooss opens into the mouth. phasynx.
Asynx. or any part Of the digestive o.
eespiratory tract; or when the lymphat'
e glands are involved; or where there
ase actlnomycotic tumors In the lungs ;
q where the lssions have become gen
sealized, since generalization In acti'
nomycosis appears to run very atypic
course, making the detection Of all foci
inside the muscle very dificult There
fore, the entire carcass 10 to be con
demned.
"In cases where the actinomycotic
jsslons are positively localized, the In.
fected part may be cut away and the
remainder Of the carcass used.
These instructions apply only to
'lumpy Jaw There may be other rea'
sons why you should want to condemn
q carcasA and II Ii then q matter Of
Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate II you
belieye the animal 70 be not ut for
human food"
That the Departments regulations,
based upon the pathologic study re-
fsrred u, are not unnecessarily se-
we're" receives additional proof In q
recent address and discussion before
ths Medical Society Of London, Eng,
reported in the Lancet Of October II,
Inst (pags 906). The subject Of the
address was actdpOmycosis as an ex.
ctant Of appendicitis. and the facts
adducsd certainly indicate one probable
cause Of the increase OF the latter dis
Gaas-appendicitiS
The sssayist T. IL KellOch, hrst
pointed out how much more frequently
actin0myo,sls was recognized 'since
more modern methods Of examination
had been empl0yed"--as In the studies
Of the Chicago Departments patholo'
gists. The affection WAS formerly be-
lisved to attack the jaws, the liver
and the lungs almost exclusively In
parsons whose lives were spent In the
country; It was now often recognized In
other parts of the body or in town
dwellers. The star or ray formation
was not always present, and its alb.
ssnce must frequently have led to a
nseativs diagnosis when the affection
night have been recognised by proper
Goatning. A. the fungus or streyto.