Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-19

fit food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats as show gross
pathologlc conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye. are now condemned. En-.
cilitles for microscopic laboratory OK.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned and destroyed 30 parts
of beef carcasscs. 3 hogs and o cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
''rhe total stock yards condcmnations
amounted to 17O.sOS pounds"
Speaking Of the 3,035.OOO pounds Of
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DR.. q.
J. Whalen. Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED on
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
commenting upon this condition
| CONTINUES Commissioner Whalen),
American Medicine December %,
says: One stands aghast mt the crlml.
nal cupldlty which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectlng community. 1t Is now
In order to 90 n step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
Obllqulty.
cit IL well known that combinations
OF the larger meat dealers have exist.
ell In the past to the end Of raising
the price of food stuffs beyond the point
to which healthy competition would re-
duce them. The cutlery has always been
In protest against the Increased cost
of living, but here for the first time
are the combinations which control the
food supply, brought into direct rela'
ton to the public health.
at IL high time that this matter
he taken out OF the class OF minor Of
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
. In war. when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned, 1t IL the height OF dis
, honor--even murder--tO poison the
water supply of a country. Is 1t any
better to poison the food supply? II
Is time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
J read the following from the Health DE
:, partment Bulletin, November !, lsWo
| "The total amount OF meats con
- demncd during the period was l.3i3,3i:
4 pounds. or the principal causes 81
, condemnation. 81 PER CENT WE'RE
. FOR TUBERCULOSIS, IL per cent fol
Q MISUNDERSTANDING jaw--and pei
cent for hog cholera"
~
Chicago Is at the mercy OF the Bee
: Trust. The Illinois legislature mus
: come to her rescue.
%6A
The Government meat law, passed tC
ohlige the packers, in lieu of law
which would please the people, fools
nobody.
Senator Reycrldee of Indiana, an
/, able and honest man, rlddlcd the new
y meat law in great speech recently.
lie declared that the law ought to
,. be amended so rs to make the pack
crs and not the Government pay for
| the inspection, besides being vitality
Z amended IN a number of other ways.
4 In the meantime the people of the
!. world are slowly discovering, despite
: the cOncealments of the subsidized
+. American press, that the present sys
70 TEN Is deluslOn and Il snare. In this
/. connections the following dispatch from
, Paris, France, explains Itself:
paris, NOV. 2O-Omission OF the
J.. microscopic examination of pork from
the new American meat inspection reg
/. ulatlOns has resulted In a preliminary
r decision on the part of the French
[ customs authorities barring American
+ ham, bacon, canned pork, etc.
after long diplomatic negotiations
, several years ago France agreed to
+, admit American pork on government