Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-02
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.
citiA
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 suficiency Of the "ln.
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 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 study Of actln0myco.
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
"iumpy Jaw" cattle. with special or.
der reading as follows:
"while acttnOmycosiss Is usually con.
fined to the head, and may be said, In
one sense, to be localized disease, and
while some inspectors condemn the part
involved, I believe 1t Ia safest and most
practicable TO condemn the entire car.
cass whenever the actinomycOtic 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 LESSONS have become gen
eralized, since generalization In acti'
nOmycosis appears to run q very atyplc
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 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
a carcass, and 1t is then u 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 patholosic study re-
ferred TO, are not unnecessarily Sc
yere," receives additional proof In
recent address and discussion before
the Medical Society OF London, Eng,
reported in the Lancet OF October IL,
Inst. page 936). The subject Of the
address was acunomycosis as an ex-
citant OF appendicitis, and the facts
sdduced certainly indicate one probable
cause Of the increase OF the latter dis
ease-appendicltis.
The essay!st 4. II. KeIloch, first
pointed out how much more frequently
was recognized "since |
more modern methods OF examination
had been employed'--as In the studies
,f the Chicago Departments patholo-
yists. The affection was formerly be-
ieved 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
,ther parts OF the body or in town
iwellers. The star or ray formation
vas not always present. and It's alb
ence must frequently have led to
seeative diagnosis when the affection
night have been recognized by proper
taining. As the fungus or strepto-