Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-06

Tubssculosis 10 becoming epidemic.
Ths Beef Trust products afliicesi with
tuberculosis can be sold without let or
hindrance, when past inspection"
The school Management committee OF
the Board of Education took active
steps to prevent children afflicted with
tuberculosis from attending school. A
report drafted by Superintendent
Cooley and Dr. u. d. Dudley was adopt.
Ell. which provides that when teacher
suspects that any child Ii affected with
the disease It shall be made know,
10 the superintendent Of schools BY the
principal. After the parents Of the
child IRE notified the pupil will be ex-
amined by medical inspectors Of the
child study department. Parents will
be given permission to have their fam
lily physician present at the examine
ton.
The poor children who got the tuber.
culosis from meat must suffer.
We can see from the Health Depart.
mcnt reports that State and govern.
ment inspection does not prevent tuber.
culosis beef from getting into the cool
era from which the public II served.
The statement that there are $1,000
cunsumptives In Chicago was made al
the annual meeting Of the Visiting
Nurse Association by Mr.. Arthur Adds
chairman Of the tuberculosis commit
tesA DIR. Sachs spoke. urging drastic
action by the Board 0t Health to stainr
out the disease.
Tuberculosis Ia Beef disease.
1t is not hereditary.
1t Ii not contracted from impure air
II In contracted by eating bad meat
sold by sortlid and conscienceless nier
who think more Of dollars than they
do Of human lives.
II any Of your relatives have tiber
culoSls you know who to blame.
The homes saddened by the death
Of husbands, wives, fathers, mothers
brothers, sisters. sons and daughters.
The people poverty stricken BY con
sumption,
Know who In guilty!
There Ia day Of reckoning for thes,
barons Of blood and tyrants Of thu
Trust!
The Chicago Eagle will keep upor
their track until Europe a. we'll q
America will b too hot to hold tlAAn
The Beef Trust may control govern
ment inspection.
But the insigni6cant number Of cit.
Of Chicago inspectors II In al
although now strangely discontinued
WAS still sufficient to call attention b
horrible facts.
The following from the Chicag'
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo
bsr %. 1905. speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors at the Unio,
Stock Yards condemned FIVE CAT
TLD FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCUIOsls TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED ~
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
They also condemned and destroye,
8,O0S pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas CITY, havinl
passed government inspsct,en II thos
places"
This shows The sort Of soverumsn
inspection We have.
| II q few Of the governmental omia
sions are rectinsd bow many thoua
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe an
America are at this moment harborin
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle
The above report Of the Health Com
missioner speaks of meat hanging 4
the coolers Of trust houses, with tubel
cular tumors trimmed out" ready ;
be cut into steaks.
Speaking of the 3,985, 900 pounds O
food condemned In 1906 by Chicag
Health Department inspectors, DR.. {
]. Whalen, Health Commissioner. say
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF TIL
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED O!
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCUfOSIS.
Commenting upon this conditio
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelanl
American Medicine December 2,
says: One stands ashast at the Grim
nal cupidity which will induce men {
attempt to sell such dangerous foods
an unsuspecting community. It Ia no,
In order to 90 Q step farther and In
out who Ia responsible for this m0rs
obliquity.
"'It is well known that combin,
tions OF the larger meat dealers hav
existed In the past to the end of rail-
ing the price OF food stuffs beyond til
point to which healthy competitio
would reduce them. The outcry ha
always been In protest against the II
creased cost Of living, but here for til
esst time are the combinations whic
coA.rol the food supply, brought lxty
direct relation to public health.
"It 10 high time that thlS n >tte
he taken out OF the class of minO, OF
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIL
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Eve
tn war, when oil kinds Of brutality or
2nctaoasd. II d the height Of Al