Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-15

c,,iar tumors trimmed CUT ready to
be cut Into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3.03G on sounds Of
food condemned n 1906 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DR.. G.
]. Whnlen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOS1S."
commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan), },
American Medicine December %,
says: One stands aghast at the crim!.
nal cupidlty which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to go step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
obllqulty.
att Is we'll known thnt combina-
tlons Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails.
Ing the price of food stuffs beyond tile
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
s.:st time are the combinations which
coN.rol the food supply, brought 10y =
direct relation to public health.
"lt Ii high time that thle n.~tter
be taken out Of the class Of minO, OF.
fense AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
n war. when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. Il Ia the heisht Of al.
hon0r-even murder--to poison the
water supply Of country. II II any
better to poison the food suppiyi II
ID time TINT 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
Tho total amount Of meats con-
demned during the period was 1.S43,3 ,34a
pounds OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. Is PER CENT WERE
FOR TtBERCULOsIS, ~ per cent fol
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and 4 por
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. o
1906: "a total Of 147,80O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
| during the past wcek) under the su
pervislon Of tho department inspectors
at the Union Stock Yards. This In
clutes 4.0s3 pounds Of government-in
slected cut meats shipped from pack
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
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Health Department Bulletin, Novem
Der II, 1905:
"Although the condemnation and de
structiOn Of food supplies UNFIT foI
human consumption during the pas,
three mOnths--since the resumption OF
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.
BY order OF the Commissioner
reached Immense proportions, much un
1T food still reaches the market Only
such animals and meats as show grosi
pathologic conditions, recognizable By
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa
cilities for microscopic laboratory OK
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.
"T'lse total stock yards condemnation
amounted to l7G.SOS pounds"
"Parts Of best carcasses!"
In other words II has been and Il
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumors and let the rest OF
the carcass 20 to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
The Beef Trust will find 1t hare
To get resting place when the peO
pie Of this country rise against II
as they surely will. The people of tin
whole world are crying for Its exter
minatlOn.
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An average OF $4,000 pounds of dis
eased meat is condemned every week by
Chicago Health Department inspectors
In butcher shops aud grocery and de
partment stores "lnslde the Uniol
loop"
II this great amount. OF tubercuiar
cancerous and maggoty material can b.
found by the inspectors and destroyed
''inside the loop" small territory
bounded by the river. Van Buren, street
Wabash and Fifth avenues, how many
million pounds are sold to the public
and consumed In the vast territory out
side the loop?
This Is a very pertinent qes5tion.
That 10000 pounds Of diseased meal
can escape stockyards inspection every
week and find itself into department
and other stores "inside the loop
should suffice to call attention to thu
vast amount of poisonous food that e.
capes inspection at the stockyards and
Is sold outside the loop.
Facts are facts. and osures AsvsS n