Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09
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 Ind been
cut away, was the cause Of append.
citis.
In a bulletin issued by Commissioner
Of Health Charles J. 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 sufIiciency Of the I'm.
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 "lumpy Jaws"
''The Chicago regulations are distinctly
more severe than those Of other coun.
tries. The committee holds
that the regulations as to condemnation
for abscesses opening Into the digestive
OF respiratory tract are unnecessarily
severe In the absence Of secondary
symptoms. Otherwise the rules were
approved"
The results Of a study Of actlnomyco.
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 special or.
der. reading as follows:
"While actinomycosiss is 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, l believe 1t Is safest and most
practicable to condemn the entire car.
cass whenever the actlnomycotic oh.
scess 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 lesions have become gen
eralixed, 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 Is to be con-
demned.
In cases where the actinomycotic
LESSONS are positively localized, the In.
Cected part may be cut away and the
remainder Of the carcass used.
'.rhese instructions apply only to
Iunpy jaw There may be other rea-
sons why you should want to condemn
q carcass, and II Is then a matter OF
Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate If you
believe the animal TO be not TIT for
human food"
That the Departments regulations,
based upon the patholoslc study re-
ferred TO, are not unnecessarily Sc
yere," 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 336). The subject Of the
address was actinomycosis as an eX-
citant OF appendicitis, and the facts
sdduced certainly indicate one probable
cause OF the increase OF the latter dis
es esse-appendicltls.
The essayist, +. II. Kelloch, first
pointed out how much more frequently
actlnOmycosis was recognized since
more modern methods Of examination
had been employed"--as In the studies
of the Chicago Departments patholO-
gists. The affection was formerly be-
lieyed TO attack the jaws, the liver
and the lungs almost exclusively In
persons whose lives were spent In the
cOuntry; 1t 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 to a
negative diagnosis when the affection
night have been recognized by proper
gtsining. As the fungus or strepto-