Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-30
Government Meat inspectors Chosen from
Beef Trust Employees Under the
New inspection Law.
Everything to Be Sold in Cans to
the Public Without Any
Restraint.

With a corps OF Beef Trust inspec.
tors the fate of the public will be worse
than it ever was.
The Chicago Tribune. which Will
not be accused by anyone OF being an
enemy Of the Beef Trust. after calling
attention to the fact that only - out
of 100 meat product inspectors had
gone to work under the new law. said
OIL Tuesday. Sept. IL, l00G. 1T will
be necessary TO hold another examlna.
ton before the full complement of 100
men can be installed. and 1t Is doubt.
ful II sufficient number will be avail.
able for duty when the new law goes
into effect Oct. J.. The new inspectors
will look after sanitary conditions at
the plants principally. and Mr.. Cooley
placed them where they could do the
most effective work In the four estab.
Iishments. They will inspect the trucks,
rooms. hangers. tables. pipes and floors.
Sixty.iive of those who took the exam.
ination recently passed but only TWEEN.
ty-seven reported for duty. This Is nc.
counted for by the fact that Of those
who passed number are now Elm.
ployed in the packing houses ut 500
a month. The salary Of an inspector IL
but $SS.33 month"
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A great portion Of the "lumpy Jaw"
beef slaughtered In the United States
and passed as sound by the inspect.
ors Is sold and consumed In Chicago,
according to recent article In the
Chicago Tribune. st. Louis prohibits
both the slaughter and sale Of "lumpy
Jaw" cattle In that city. and Kansas
City. while 1t permits the slaughtering
Of such cattle. prohibits the sale Of the
beef.
That Chicago has become the "dump.
Ing ground for practically all the
"lumpy Jaw" beef In the country was
revealed by food inspectors.
At one plant are slaughtered every
Friday from 100 to 200 head Of "lumpy
Jaw" cattle. or these only small
fraction 10 condemned as unfit for con.
sumption. The rest, with the diseased
parts cut out. Is sold for prime beef.
and brings the retailer rs good prices
q the best beef.
This Is possible by reason Of the fact
that the consumer has no way Of telling
whether the beef he buys Is part Of u
"lumpy Jaw" steer or not. II the In.
spectors pass an infected animal. after
the postmortem inspection, the beef Is
placed In the cooler and sold Just rs
any other beef. OF course the attitude
OF Health Commissioner Whalen and
others Is that the locally infected cattle
are not generally unfit for food.
Out OF total days slaughter OF 100
head of "lumpy Jaw" and otherwise In.
fected animals only Twelve car.
cases were condemned after post.
norton inspection. This means that ut
an average weight OF 100 pounds each
there will be sold In Chicago during
the next few days at least $4,000
pounds OF "lumpy Jaw" beef. How
much Of the same kind OF meat Is
shipped into Chicago from Kansas City
and other places where Its sale IL pro-
hibited would be difficult TO estimate
but the quantity IL undoubtedly large
In most OF the Eastern cities ordl'
nances are in force prohibiting the sale
Of meat from animals with actlnomy'
costs. the scientific name for "lumpy
Jaw" Thus Chicago remains rs the
only large market where that class OF
cattle may be slaughtered and sold with
profit
The average weekly receipts OF cattle
at the stock yards are I0,oOC head, and
among these always are found from
100 10 200 animals infected in on,
way or another.