Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-09
The illinois State Board Of Health
Hits Both Of Them Hard in
Circular.
Duty Of the City Administration with
Regard to Meat Inspection Is
Very Plain.

The new government law, as every
body knows, does not provide for the
inspection of meat consumed In Chicago
and Illinois.
The strange apathy Of the Chicago
authorities In the matter of Beef Trust
violations of the law, Is arousing the
attention of the entire country.
The flooding of Chicago and the
State of Illinois with lumry Jaw, tub.
CIRCULAR and cancerOus beef Is causing
widespread Indignation.
The Illinois State Board Of Health
has Just issued strong circular con.
Timing recommendation to municipal.
ties concerning the supervision and In.
spectiOn of slaughter houses, packing
houses, etc.
The following extracts show how
hard the circular hits the city govern.
nent Of Chicago:
'srhe Illinois state Board Of Health.
BY special resolution, adopted at regu.
lar meeting, held In Chicago June 10th
and 2ist, 1900, urgently recommends
to the mayors and councils Of oil cities
anu the presidents and boards Of trus.
te0 Of all villages, and to all other
health officials In Ill parts Of the State.
the enactment and enforcement Of ordl.
nances providing for the supervision
and the regular and systematic inspec'
ton Of all slaughter houses, packing
houses, storage houses, markets, Gel.
lars and all other establishments used
for the preparation. manufacture. stor.
aac or sale Of food intended for hu.
man consumption.
1.-THE health Of the people Is largely
dependent upon the purity, quality ana
cleanliness Of their food and these
may be controlled and guaranteed to
the people only through the consclcn.
tlous efforts Of health officials acting
under the powers conferred upon them
by the statutes.
~rhe people Of each municipality
have the right to expect that the OIL.
Gals whom they have entrusted with
the enforcement OF the law. will give
them every possible protection provided
BY the law. and the statutes OF the
state Of Illinois are 20 liberal In their
construction as to give to the munich
paiity full power to control all OF those
things which may In any way encct the
health Of the people.
"Under the provisions OF an net to
provide for the incorporation OF cities
and villages, approved April 10. 1877.
(Ilcylscd Statutes. Chapter "a. Section
G2), the councils In cities and the presl'
dent aud the board OF trustees In VII
lagcs are empowered to regulate the
sale OF meat, poultry. fish. butter,
cheese, lard, vegetables and all other
provisions; to regulate the sale OF
bread and to prescribe Its quality; TO
proyide for the Inspection OF oil articles
Of food; to declare what shall con-
stitutc a nuisance and to abate same
and to fine all who permit nuisances
TO exist to appoint board OF health
and prescribe Its powers and duties |;
no DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALL
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH OR no PREVENT DIS
EASE; to direct location and regulate
the management and construction OF
hacking houses either within tho limits
OF the corporation or within one mile
from it, boundaries; to compel tho
owner Of any grocery or any unwhole'
some or nauseOus place to cleanse and
abate or remove same and to regulate
its location. Under the provisions OF
the same law. municipalities are EN-
powered to impose fines, not exceeding
5000 for each offense, or imprisonment.
not exceeding six months, for the viola
ton OF any Of its ordinances"
".Aslde from the specific provisions OF
the law, quoted above. the one pro.
vision, empowering the municipality
~rO DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALL
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH AND PREVENT DISEASE.
gives ample authority for the local OH.
Gals to undertake the supervision and
systematic inspection Of those places
I'm which food for human consumption
ID either prepared, manufactured,
stored or offered for sale. However,
the specific provisions Of the statutes
remove all doubt as to the limits to
which the municipality may 20 In the
protection of the health Of the people,"
"Anlmal food Is particularly suscep.
tible to bacterial action and to decom.
positIon which Is FASTENED by killing
and handling In filthy slaughter houses
or by Improper refrigeration aud stor'
age" 49,
MAILS, TOO FREQUENTLY SLAUGH.
TBRED FOR HUMAN FOOD. MAY
RE PRODUCTIVE OF WIDESPREAD
DISEASE AMONG THOSE WHO
CONSUME IT."
.
'uThe oft repeated statement that
cooking will remove the poisonous prop.
critics Of spoiled meat Is not to be re-
lied upon."
an view of these facts, 1t Is the duty
O, the health officials of all municipal.
ties to establish such supervision and
inspection as will render impossible the
maintenance of unsanltary daughter
houses and packing houses, Ae killing
of diseased animals or tee sale Of
meats and other foods VIII. h. by their
original character, or cha~ses M..ch
have taken place In them, are UNFIT for
human consumption"