Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-17
lit Has Fought Every Effort to Have Dates Placed Upon
Its Canned Goods, and Has Combatted Every Attempt
to Make It Pay Costs Of Inspection
Now it Has Raised the Price of the Food Products of
the Country and It's Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record.

sular tumors trimmed OUT ready 10
be cut Into steaks.
Speaking Of the a.906.OOa mounds Of
food condemned n 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, Dr.. 9.
]. Whalen, Health Commlssl0ner, says
IN his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBDRCULOsIS."
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan),
American Medicine December ..
says: One stands aghast ut the crimi.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. It II now
In order to 90 step farther and find
out who IL responsible for this moral
obliquity.
att Is well known that combina.
lions 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
control the food supply, brought ist> .
direct relation to public health.
"'lt IL high time TINT THE n utter
be taken out Of the class Of mino, Of
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
IN war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. It Ii the height Of die.
hOnOr-even murder-to poison the
water supply Of a country. II It any
better to poison the food supply? II
IL time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction A"
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health Dc
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1905
''The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1,343, 34a
pounds OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. 81 PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS - per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. o
1906: "a total Of 147,09O pounds OF
meats was condemned and destroyed
during the past weekly under the su
pervision Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In
ciudes 4,0S3 pounds Of governmental
spected cut meats shipped from pack
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
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Health Department Bulletin, NOvem
Der II, 1905:
"AlthOugh the condemnation and de
struction Of food supplies UNIT fol
human consumption during the pas
three mOnths--since the resumption o.
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.
BY order OF the COmmissi0ner-hav'
reached immense proportions, much un
fit food still reaches the market. Onl!
such animals and meats as show gross
pathologic conditions. recognizable b!
the naked eye, are now condemned. Flu
cilities for microscopic laboratory OK
} animation have not yet been restored
'"The Union Stock Yards city inspeC
!. tors condemned and destroyed 80 part
OF beef carcasses, 8 hogs and q cattl
} WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED 81
, THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"The total stock yards condemnation
,, amounted to 178,SOS pounds"
"Parts of beef carcasses!"
= In other words 1t has been and
n the practice to cut out the cancers an
tubercular tumOrs and let the rest q
the carcass 20 to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
y The Beef ,srust will find It har
i to get a resting place when the pe
pie of this country rise against
Is as they surely will. The people OF Il
II whole world are crying for its exte
minatiOn.
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An average OF 10000 pounds Of di
eased meat is condemned every week b
" Chicago Health Department inspector
: In butcher shops aud grocery and d.
,, partment stores "inside the URIO
!, loop"
!, II this great amount Of tli,srouia
: :, cancerous and magg0ty material con /
found by the inspectors and deserOye
q "inside the loop" a small territ0s
n bounded by the river, Van Buren, stres
g Wabash and Firth avenues, how mar
y million pounds are sold to the putt
and consumed In the vast territory o.
u side the loop?
This Is very pertinent q1estson.
J. That 10000 pounds Of diseased ma