Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-19
The illinois State Board Of Health
Hits Both Of Them Hard in
Circular.
Duty of the City Administration with
Regard to Meat Inspection Is
Very Plain.

The new government law, MS every.
body knows, does not provide for the
inspection of meat consumed In Chicago
and Illinois.
The strange apathy Of the Chicago
authorities in the matter of Beef Trust
violations of the law, Is arOuslng tile
attention of the entire country.
The flooding of Chicago and the
State of Illinois with lumry Jaw, tub.
CIRCULAR and cancerous beef is causing
widespread Indignation.
The Illinois State Board Of Health
has just issued Il strong circular con.
tanning recommendations to munlcpali-
ties concerning the supervision and In
spectiOn of slaughter houses, packing
houses, etc.
The following extracts show how
hard the circular hits the city govern.
ment Of Chicago:
"The Illinois State Board Of Health,
BY special resolution, adopted ut regu.
lar meeting, held In Chicago June 10Th
and 2ist, 1905, urgently recommends
to the mayors and councils Of oil cities
an~ the presidents and boards Of trus.
tees Of all villages, and to all other
health officials In all parts Of the State,
the enactment and enforcement Of ordl.
nances providing for the supervision
and the regular and systematic inspec-
ton Of all slaughter houses, packing
houses, storage houses, markets, eel.
lars and all other establishments used
for the preparation, manufacture. stor.
age or sale Of food Intended for hu.
man consumption.
1.-THE health Of the people Is largely
dependent upon the purity. quality and
cleanliness Of their food and these
may be controlled and guaranteed to
the people only through the conscien.
t,ous efforts Of health officials acting
under the powers conferred upon them
BY the statutes.
'The people Of each municipality
have the right to expect that the OIL.
ciais whom they have entrusted with
the enforcement of the law. will give
them every possible protection provided
by the law. and the statutes Of the
State Of Illinois are 80 liberal In their
construction rs to give to the munich
pality full power to control all OF those
things which may In any way effect the
health Of the people.
"under the provisions OF an act to
provide for the incorporation OF cities
and villages, approved April 10. 1877,
(Revised Statutes. Chapter -. Section
G2), the councils In cities ana the presl.
dent and the board OF trustees In VII.
lagos are empowered to regulate the
sale Of meat, poultry, fish, butter
cheese. lard, vegetables and all other
provisions; to regulate the sale OF
bread and to prescribe Its quality; to
provide for the inspection OF oil articles
OF food; to declare what shall con-
stltute nuisance and to abate same
and to fine all who permit nuisances
to exist; to appoint board OF health
and prescribe Its powers and duties
no DO ALL ACTS AND MAKE ALL.
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH OR no PREVENT DIS.
EASE; to direct location and regulate
the management and construction OF
packing houses either within the limits
OF the corporation or within one mile
from its boundaries; to compel the
owner OF any grocery or any unwh0le'
some or nauseOus place to cleanse and
abate or remove same and to regulate
Its location. Under the provisions OF
the same law. municipalities are EN-
powered to impose fines, not exceeding
500 for each offense, or imprisonment
not exceeding six months, for the VIOLA
ton of any Of its ordinances"
aside fromtne specific provisions OF
the law, quoted above. the one pro-
vision, empowering the municipality
ITO DO ALL ACTS AND Make ALL.
REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE
HEALTH AND PREVENT DISEASE
gives ample authority for the local off,
clals to undertake the supervision ana
systematic inspection Of those places
In which food for human consumption
Is either prepared. manufactured
stored or offered for sale. However
the specific provisions of the statutes
remove all doubt as to the limits to
which the municipality may 20 In the
protection OF the health Of the people"
"!Anlmal food Is particularly suscep.
tible to bacterial action and to decOm'
position which Is fastened by killing
and handling In filthy slaughter houses
or by improper refrigeration and stor-
age"
"MEAT FROM DISEASED AMI.
MAILS, TOO FREQUENTLY SLAUGH'
TERED FOR HUMAN FOOD, MAY
RE PRODUCTIVE OF WIDESPREAD
DISEASE AMONG THOSE WHO
CONSUME IT."
"The oft repeated statement that
cooking will remove the poisonous prop
critics Of spoiled meat Is not to be re-
lied upon"
"In view of these facts, 1t Is the duty
O, the health officials of all munlcipali.
ties to establish such supervision and
inspection as will render lmposs. lie the
maintenance of unsanitary daughter
houses and packing houses, ne killing
of diseased animals or to sale of
meats and other foods VIII. n. by their
original character, or changes Ms.ch
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