Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18
For Years Stole Millions Of Gallons Of Water from the People
Of Chicago through blind Pipes and Never Made Rest.
tuition and Never Was Punished for Stealing.
Now it Has Raised the Price of the Food Products
the Country and Its Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record.

c,,lar tumors "trimmed out" ready 10
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3035.O00 pounds Of
food condemned In 1906 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DR.. G.
J. whnlen, 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 at the crlml.
nal cupldity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. It Ii now
In order to 60 a step farther and find
out who IL responsible for this moral
obliqulty.
"'lt Ii well known that combina.
tions Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails.
Ing the price Of food stuffs beyond the
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
erst time are the combinations which
coASrol the food supply, brougSt VA, .
direct relation to public health.
att 10 high time that thlS q >tter
be taken out Of the class Of minO, Of.
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBI.IC DANGERS. Even
b war. when all kinds Of brutality are
Nuctioned. Il 10 the Insight Of a.
honor-even murder-to poison the
water supply Of . country. 10 Il any
bettsr to poison the food supplyf Il
10 time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction "
Speaking Of Beef Trust tubsrculosis
read the following from the Health d.
|partment Bulletin, November 4, 1905
The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1,84S,34
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. s5 PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOsIs, II per cent for
actinomyco jaw-and 4 per
cent for bog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. o,
1906: "A total Of 147.00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
during the past week) under the 81.
Ipervision Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4.0S3 pounds OF government.in'
spected cut meats shipped from pack
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
Health Department Bulletin, NOvem'
ber II, 1906:
"Although the condemnation and de-
structiOn Of food supplies UNIT for
human consumption during the past
three mOnths--slnce the resumption OF
Stock Yards inspection August 7 ult.
by order Of the C0mmissiOner-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
: cilitics for microscopic laboratory ex
animation have not yet been restored
"The Union Stock Yards city inspec
, tors condemned ana destroyed 30 parts
of beef carcasses, 3 hogs and cattle
, WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"The total stock yards cOndemnatiOns
} amounted to lIGSOS pounds"
"Parts Of beef carcasses !"
In other words II has Oeen and Is
} the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumors ana let the rest OF
the carcass 90 to the people for food
5 And yet we call ourselves civilized.
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The Beef Trust will find 1t hart
, to 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 pounds of dis