Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

With a corps Of Beef Trust inspec.
tors the fate of the public will be worse
than IL ever was.
The Chicago Tribune. which Will
not be accused by anyone Of being an
enemy OF the Beef Trust, after calling
attention TO the fact that only - out
of 100 meat product inspectors had
gone to work under the new law. said
on Tuesday. Sept. IL, 1906: 1T Will
be necessary to hold another examina.
ton before the full complement of 40
men can be installed. and IL Is doubt.
full II a sufficient number will be avail.
able for duty when the new law goes
into effect Oct. !. The new inspectors
will look after sanitary conditions at
the plants principally. and Mr.. Cooley
placed them where they could do the
most effective work In the four estab.
lishments. They will inspect the trucks,
rooms. hangers, tables. pipes and floors.
Sixty.rve of those who took the exam.
ination recently passed but only TWEEN.
ty.seven reported for duty. This Is &C.
counted for by the fact that Of those
who passed number are now elm
ployed in the packing houses at $500
a month. The SALARY Of an Inspector Is
but $3.50 a month";
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A great portion OF the "lumpy Jaw
beef slaughtered In the United States
and passed as Sound" BY the inspect.
ors Is sold and consumed In Chicago.
according to a recent article In the
Chicago Tribune. st. Louis prohibits
both the slaughter and sale Of "lumpy
Jaw" cattle In that city. and Kansas
City. while It permits the Strengthening
OF such cattle, prohibits the sale Of the
beet.
That Chicago has become the "dump.
Ing ground" for practically all the
"lumpy Jaw" beef In the country was
revealed by food inspectors.
At one plant are slaughtered every
Friday from 100 to 200 head OF "lumpy
Jaw" cattle. OF these only small
fraction Is condemned Ms unfit for con-
sumption. The rest, with the diseased
parts cut out, Is sold for prime beef,
and brings the retailer as good prices
% the best beef.
This Is possible by reason OF the fact
that the consumer has no way Of telling
whether the beef he buys Is part Of a
"lumpy Jaw" steer or not. II the In
apectors pass an infected animal. after
the pOst.mortem inspection, the beef Is
L., hn coll N {
any other beef. or course the attitude
OF Health Commissioner Whalen and
others Is that the locally Infected cattle
are not generally unfit for food.
Out OF total days slaughter OF 12C
head OF "lumpy Jaw" and otherwise In
fected animals only twelve car
cases were condemned after post
norton inspection. This means that al
an average weight OF 100 pounds each
there will be sold In Chicago during
the next few days Mt least 129,GO(
pounds OF ''lumpy Jaw" beef. How
much OF the same kind OF meat II
shipped into Chicago from Kansas City
and other places where Its sale is pro
hibIted would be difficult to estimate
but the quantity IL undoubtedly large
In most OF the Eastern cities ordi
nances are In force prohibiting the sale
Of meat from animals with actInomy
COSTS, the scientific name for "lumpy
Jaw" Thus Chicago remains as the
only large market where that class Of
cattle may be slaughtered and sold with
profit.
The average weekly receipts OF cattle
Mt the stock yards are 10000 head, ant
among these always are found from
100 10 200 animals infected in one
way or another.