Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-16
BEEF TRUST WARNING.
The Chicago Health Department Tells the
Public that Lumpy Jaw Beef Causes
Appendicitis.
The Chicago Eagle Has Made this
Contention for a Year and
Is Upheld.

The Health Department Of the city
Of Chicago has finally upheld the con.
tention of The Chicago Eagle, main.
tained for over year, that lumpy Jaw
beef. sold by Chicago packers to con.
sumers after the local ulcers had been
cut away, was the cause Of append.
eitis.
In n bulletin issued by Commissioner
OF Health Charles ]. Whalen, the fol.
lowing warning to the public appears:
In Its report to the council Of the
Chicago Medical Society last July, the
Committee Of the Society, appointed to
examine into the sufilciency Of the "In.
structions to Meat Inspectors" Of the
Health Department. with reference to
the protection Of the health Of the con.
sumer and Of the public health, said.
% to actinomycosis, or "luinpy jaw:"
''The Chicago regulations are distinctly
more severe than those Of other coun.
tries. The committee holds
that the regulations as to condemnation
for Assesses opening into the digestive
or respiratory tract are unnecessarily
severe In the absence Of secondary
symptoms. Otherwise the rules were
approved"
The results OF a study Of actinomyco-
sis In the human being and In animals,
BY the pathologists Of the Department
Laboratories, had led the commission.
er to supplement the original instruc.
tions concerning the inspection Of
''lumpy Jaw" cattle. with q special or.
der, reading as follows:
"While actnomycosiss 10 usually con.
nned to the head, and may be said, In
one sense. to be localized disease, and
while some inspectors condemn the part
involved. believe 1t IL safest and most
practicable to condemn the entire car.
cass whenever the actin0myc0tic oh.
sces opens Into the mouth, pharynx,
larynx. or any part Of the digestive or
respiratory tract; or when the lymphat.
ic glands are involved; or where there
are actinomycOtic tumors In the lungs;
or where the LESSONS have become gen.
eralized, since generalization In acti.
nOmycosls appears to run very atypic
course. making the detection OF all foci
3nside the muscle very difficult. There.
demned.
"ln cases where the electromagnetic
LESSONS are positively localized, the in.
fected part may be cut away aud the
remainder OF the carcass used.
These instructions apply only to
'lumpy jaw There may be other rea.
sons why you should want 10 condemn
n carcass, and 1t is then Il matter OF
Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate If you
believe the animal 10 be not lit for
human food"
That the Departments regulations,
based upon the pathologlc study re.
ferred 10, are not unnecessarily Sc
we're" receives additional proof in a
recent address and discussion before
the Medical Society Of London, Eng
reported in the Lancet OF October II,
inst. page 1861. The subject OF the
address was actinomycosls as an ex-
Cildit VI appcuu!cltis, anu lHc ldcLS
adduced certainly indicate one probable
cause OF the increase of the latter dis.
ease-appendlcltls.
The essaylst, 4. II. Kelloch, first
pointed out how much more frequently
actinomycos!s was recognized "since |
more modern methods Of examination |
had been employed"--as in the studies
OF the Chicago Departments patholo. |
g!sts. The affection was formerly be. |
lieved to attack the jaws, the liver
and the lungs almost exclusively in |
persons whose lives were spent In the
country II was now often recognized in |
other parts Of the body or in town
dwellers. The star or ray formation
was not always present, and its alb.
sence must frequently have led 10 a
negative diagnosis when the affection
might have been recognized by proper
As the fungus or strepto.