Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-21
PAckER b0RACIC RECORDS
For the Past Three Years. Carefully Collected from Ocia
Reports and Press kilograms, Furnish Pure Food
Data for the Campaign of 1908.

passed government inspection G. &hoss
places"
This shows The sort Of government
inspection we have had.
II Q few Of the governmental omis.
slons are rectined how many thous.
ands are mott
How many homes IN Europe and
America are at this moment harborins
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattlef
Eas akeys rspcrt Of the Health Com.
kasAsouef e,Nok1 Of meat hanging IN
the c0Olera of sxNyG houses. with tul,er.
cular tumors> "trlmmed out" ready to
he cut into steaks
| Speaking Of the 8035 ON pounds Of
food condemned 70 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 %,
says: One stands aghast at the crimi.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectlng community. It is now
In order to 60 q step farther and ilnd
out who 10 responsible for this moral
obliquity.
att 10 well known that 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 thu
crst time are the combinations which
coa<rol the food supply, brought iaa, q
direct relation to public health.
"'lt 10 high time that thlS II otter
be taken out Of the class Of mino, of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THD
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
tn war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. It II the height ~ die.
honor--even murder-to poison the
water supply Of q country. II Il any
better to poison the food supply? Il
IL 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, 1906:
The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was l,8lS,84S
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. e6 PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOsIs. II per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and I per
cent for hog cholera"
Health Department Bulletin, Dec. Q.
1905: "A total Of 147,0OO pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
(during the past week. under the su.
pervlsion Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4.OS3 pounds Of government-in.
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 Commissioners
reached immense proportions. much un.
ht food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats a. show gross
pathologic conditions. recognizable by
the naked eye. are now condemned. Fa.
cilities for microscopic laboratory sx.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned aud destroyed 80 parts
OF beef carcasses, hogs and q cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"rhe total stock yards condemnati tions
amounted to l76,SOS pounds"
parts Of beef carcasses I"
In other words II has been and Ia
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumOrs aud let the rest Of
the carcass 20 to the people for food
And yet We call ourselves civilized.
~
During the twelve months prior to
the withdrawal Of the city inspectors
from the stock yards, according to the
report Of the Health Department for
1905, issued In 1907, the city inspectors
condemned and destroyed 20O08 cat.
tie and hogs The principal causes for
condemnation were:
Cattle, tuberculosis, SO per cent; I;
lumpy Jaw, II per cent; other causes,
per cent.
Hogs, tuberculosis. G5 per cent !;
cholera and swine plague, 20 per cent |;
other causes, o per cent.
But the city inspectors have now
been withdrawn from the stock yards.
The Beef frusl will find Il hard
10 get resting place when the peo.
pie of this country rise against II,
% they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for its exter.
minati0n.