Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-19

cular tumors "trimmcd out" ready to
he cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3035. ON mounds Of
food condemned n 1906 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DIR. G.
J. 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 mt the crimi-
nal cupldity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to 60 step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
obliqulty.
ait Ii 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 stufYs beyond the
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcfy 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 ir4, =
direct relation to public health.
"'lt Is high time TINT this n 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
n war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. Il n the height Of die.
honor--even murder-to poison the
water supply Of country. Is It any
better to poison the food supply7 II
Is time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction +"
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
rcad the following from the Health De.
partment Bulletin. November 4. 1905 !:
"The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1,343 343
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. - PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, II per cent for
actinomycosls--lumpy jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin. Dec 0.
1905: "a total Of 147,00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
touring the past week. under the su.
pervisi0n Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This in
cludcs 4,0S3 pounds Of governmental.
spccted 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 unfit for
human consumption during the past
three months-since the resumption of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
by order Of the COmmissiOner-have
reached immense proportions. much un.
fit food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats as show gross
pathOlogic conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye. are now condemned. Fa-
cilitles for microscopic laboratory ex-
animation have not yet been restored
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec'
tors condemned and destroyed 80 parts
of beef carcasses, 3 hogs and O cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"rhe total stock yards condemnations
amounted to l7G,S0S pounds"
"Parts of beef carcasses!'
In other words 1t has been and l.
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumOrs and let the rest OF
the carcass go to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
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The Beef ,rrust will find It hart
70 get a resting place when the peO
pie of this country rise against II
AZ they surely will. The people of tin
whole world are crying for Its exter
minatiOn.
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An average of 10000 hounds of dis