Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-27

be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3,O35.0OO pounds Of
food condemned in 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DR.. G.
J. whalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner whelan)
American Medicine December %,
says: One stands aghast at the crimi.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to 60 step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
obllquity.
"It Is well known that combina-
tions Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails.
Ing the price Of food stuifs 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,
coN.rol the food supply, brought lx., .
direct relation to public health.
"It Is high time that thlS n utter
be taken out Of the class Of mino, Of.
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
n war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. II In the height Of die.
honor-even murder-t0 poison the
water supply Of country. Ia It any
better to poison the food supply? II
ls time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction "
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health DE.
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. IS PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS. ~ per cent for
actinomycosis-lumpy jaw-and 1 per
cent Tor hog cholera"
%9A
Health Department Bulletin. Dec. o.
1906: ~ total Of 147.00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
during the past week) under the su.
pervislOn Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 1858 pounds Of government-in.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
Health Department Bulletin, Novem.
Der II. 1905:
although the condemnation and de.
structiOn OF food supplies unit for
human consumption during the past
three mOnths--since the resumption OF
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
BY order Of the mmisslOner-have
reached immense proportions, much un.
ut food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats as show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa.
cilitles for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned ana destroyed 30 parts
Of beef carcasses, 8 hogs and O cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"The total stock yards condemnatlons
amounted to 17G,SOS pounds"
"Parts Of beef carcasses!
In other words 1t has been and II
the practice To cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumors and let the rest OF
the carcass 80 to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
~
The Beef Trust will find II hard
to get q resting place when the peO'
pie Of this country rise against It.
a. they surely will. The people of the
whole world are crying for its exter'
minatiOn.
An average Of 10000 pounds of dis.
eased meat Is condemned every week by
Chicago Health Department inspectors
In butcher shops and grocery and de.
partment stores "lnslde the Union
loop"
II this great amount. of tubercular,
cancerOus and maggoty material can be
found by the inspectors and destroyed
'inside the loop" small territory
bounded by the river, Van Buren, street,
Wabash and Fifth avenues, how many
million pounds are sold to the public
and consumed In the vast territory out.
side the loop?
This is a very pertinent question.
That 10000 pounds of diseased meat
can escape stockyards inspection every
week and find itself into department
and other stores "inside the loop"
should suffice to call attention to the
vast amount Of poisonous food that es.
capes inspection at the stocky ards and
Is sold outside the loop.
Facts are facts. and figures nsvsS IA