Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-12

The Health Department Of the city
Of Chicago has finally upheld the con
tent!on Of The Chicago Eagle, main
tained for over n year, that lumpy Jaw
beef. sold By Chicago packers to con
sumers after the locnl ulcers had beer
cut away, was the cause Of append
cltis.
In a bulletin Just Issued By Commis
aioner Of Health Charles J. Whalen
the following warning to the public
appears:
In Ii report to the council Of the
Chicago Medical Society last July, the
Committee Of the Society. appointed Il
examine into the su6iclency Of the I'm
sexuctious 10 Meat Inspectors" Of th<
Health Department, with reference d
ths protection Of the health Of the con
sumer and Of the public health. said
% TO actinomycosis, or "lumpy Jaw
The Chicago regulations are distinctly
more severe than those of other coun
tries. Tho committee holds
that the regulations as to condemnation
for abscesscs opening Into the digestive
or respiratory tract are unnecessarily
severe In the absence Of secondary
symptoms. Otherwise the rules were
approved"
The results OF study Of actinomyco
els In the human being and In animals
By the pathologists Of the Department
Laboratories, had led the commission
~ IN as,pplor,on Hho <,rtut,~nl lv,.<,,,~
tons concerning the inspection OF
''lumpy Jaw" cattle, with q special or.
der. reading a. follows:
"Whlls actinomycosiss II usually con.
Aned to the head, and may be said, In
one sense, to be localized disease, and
while some inspectors condemn the part
involved. I believe It 10 safest and most
practicable to condemn the entire car.
cass whenever the actinomycotic OBJ.
scess opens into the mouth. pharynx,
laSynx, or any part Of the digestive or
resplratOry tract; or when the lymphat.
ic glands are involved; or where there
are actin0mycotic tumors In the lungs
or where the lesions have become gen.
eralised, since generalization In acti.
nOmycosis appears to run very atypic
course, making the detection of all focl
inside the muscle very difficult. There.
fore, the entire carcass IL to be cou.
demned.
In cases where the electromagnetic
LESSONS are positively localized, the In
fected part may be cut away and the
remainder Of the carcass used.
these instructions apply only to
'lumpy Jaw There may be other rea.
sons why you should want to condemn
carcass, and II is then a matter Of
judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate II you
believe the animal to be not lit for
human food"
That the Departments regulations,
based upon the pathologic study re-
ferred to, are not unnecessarily Sc
vere," receives additional proof In a
recent address ana discussion before
the Medical Society OF London Eng,
reported In the Lancet OF October II,
inst. (page 1861. The subject OF the
address was actinOmycosis as an ex.
citant of appendicitis, and the facts
adduced certainly indicate one probable
cause Of the increase OF the latter dis
ease--appendlcItls.
The essaylst, 4. II. Kelloch, first
pointed out how much more frequently
actinomycosis was recognized "since
more modern methods of examination
had been employed in the studies
OF the Chicago Departments patho!o-
gists. The affection was formerly be-
iieved 10 attack the jaws, the liver
and the lungs almost exclusively In
persons whose lives were spent In the
it was now often recognized In
other parts of the body or In town
iwellers The star or ray formation
was not always present, ana 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.