Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-12
lit Has Fought Every Effort Have Dates Placed Upon
Its Canned Goods and Has Combatted Every Attempt
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 ready to
I've cut into steaks
Speaking Of the 3.035.OOo sounds Of
food condemned N 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DR.. G.
]. 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 q,
says: One stands aghast ut the criml.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
nm unsuspecting community. It Is now
In order to 60 step farther and find
out who is responsible for this moral
Qbliqulty.
"'lt Is well known that combina.
lions 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
erst time are the combinations which
coN.rol the food supply, brought t<+, =
direct relation to public health.
"'1t is high time TINT thlS III utter
be taken out Of the class Of mino, Of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
IN war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. II In the height Of die.
h0nor-evcn murtler-to poison the
water supply Of country. Is It my
better to poison the food supply? II
Is time that the public mind should
develop a conscience In this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health Dc.
partment Bulletin. November 4, 1905:
"rhe total amount of meats con.
demned during the period was l.3i3.34:s
pounds. or the principal causes Of
condemnation. ~ PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS. IL per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw--and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. 0.
1906: ~ total Of $4,000 pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
during the past weekly under the su.
pervlsion Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4,0S3 pounds Of governmental.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
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Health Department Bulletin. Noven.
her II. 1905:
although the condemnation ana dc.
structlon Of food supplies unfit for
human consumption during the past
three months--since the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult,
by order Of the Commissloner---have
reached immense proportions, much I'M
lit food still reaches the market. Only
such animals ana meats us show gross
pathologlc conditions. recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa.
cilities for microscopic laboratory ex-
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhc Union Stock Yards city lnspec-
tors condemned and destroyed 80 parts
Of beef carcasses, 3 hogs and q cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"rhe total stock yards cOndeinnat lions
amounted to l76.S0S pounds"
"Parts OF beef carcasses!
In other words 1t has been ana IN
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumOrs ana let the rest Of
the carcass go to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized,
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The Beef trust will find It hard
20 get a resting place when the peO
| pie Of this country rise against 1t
as they surely will. The people OF thc
whole world are crying for Its eXter
minatiOn.
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