Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-09
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 had been
cut away, was the cause Of append.
citis.
In n bulletin issued by Commissioner
Of Health Charles ]. Whalcn, 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 "In
structlons 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,
as to actinomycosis, or "lumpy Jaw
'"The Chicago regulations are distinctly
more severe than those Of other coun.
tries. The committee holds
that the regulations rs 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 n 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 IL usually con.
fned 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 actinOmyc0tic OBJ
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 actlnomycotic tumors In the lungs;
or where the leslons have become gen
eralized, since generalization In actl'
nomycOsis appears to run very atypic
course, making the detection Of all f0ci
inside the muscle very difficult. There
fore, the entire carcass Is to be con-
demned.
"ln cases where the actlnomycotic
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 II is then matter OF
Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate If you
believe the animal TO be not lit for
human food"
That the Departments regulations,
based upon the pathologlc study re-
ferred 10, are not unnecessarily Sc
we're" receives additional proof in Il !
recent address and discussion before |
the Medical Society Of London, Eng, |
reported in the Lancet OF October u, |
inst. (page 99G). The subject of the |
address was actinomycosis as an ex-
citant of appendicitis, and the facts
auUuctu ttELdIHIy iAuINdtc oAt ploDdDic |
cause of the increase of the latter dis
ease-appendicitls.
The essaylst, 4. III. Kelloch, first
pointed out how much more frequently
actinomycosls was recognized "since
more modern methods OF examination
had been emplOyed'--as In the studies
of the Chicago Departments path0lo-
gists. The affection was formerly be-
lieved 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
other parts Of the body or In town
dwellers. The star or ray formation
was not always present, and It's alb.
sence must frequently have led to
negative diagnosis when the affection
might have been recognized by proper
staining. AS the fungus or strepto.