Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-23
PACKERS b0RACIC RECORDS
For the Past Three Years. Carefully Collected from Oica
Reports and Press kilograms, Furnish Pure Food
Data for the Campaign of 1908.

passed government inspection at those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have had.
II q few Of the governmental Ou,ls.
siOns are rectified how many ti,ous-
ands are not2
How many ho;1es IN EuroIe and
America are at this moment harborine
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cutler
k.sN css-e report Of the Health Com.
AA.~s.:nee awaits Of meat hanging In
the cOOlera o. t,aeyR houses. witt, tubse-
cular tumors trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3.O35OO pounds Of
food condemned "A 1905 BY Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. 9.
J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THB
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOslS."
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan).
American Medicine December "a
says: One stands aghast at the crimi.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
nm unsuspecting community. It Ia now
In order to 60 q step farther and nnd
out who is responsible for this moral
obllqulty.
"'1t IL 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 stuffs beyond tl,e
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, brousst ~, q
direct relation to public health.
"'It 10 high time that thls d. utter
he taken out Of the class Of n,lno, of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEN.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THn
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
q war, when oil kinds Of brutality aro
r~nctioned. Il IA the height of dss.
honor-even murder-to poison tn
water supply Of q country. 10 Il any
better to poison the food supplyP it
10 time that the public mind shoujA
develop q conscience In this directions
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health De.
partment Bulletin, November 4. 1906:
"The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1.3l8.34S
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. 81 PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOsIS, ~ per cent for
actinomycosis-lumpy jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
Health Department Bulletin, Dec. Q.
1905: "A total Of 147,O0O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
(during the past week) under the su.
pervlsion Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4.OS3 pounds Of governmental.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
~
Health Department Bulletin, Novem.
ber II, 1905:
"Although the condemnation and de.
structIon Of food supplies unit for
human consumption during the past
three mOnths-slnce the resumption Of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
BY order Of the Commissioners
reached immense proportions, much un.
dt food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats a. show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable By
tho 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 and destroyed 80 parts
OF beef carcasscs, 3 hogs and O cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"rlie total stock yards conden,natlons
amounted to l76,SOS pounds"
PARTS OF beef carcasses!"
In other words It has been and In
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tuberculnr tumOrs ana let the rest Of
the carcass 60 to the people for food!
And yet we cnll ourselves civilized.
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During the twelve months prior to
the withdrawal of the city inspectors
from the stock yards, according to the
report of the Health Department for
1905, Issued In 1907, the city inspectors
condemned and destroyed 26O08 cat
tic and hogs. The principal causes, for
condemnation were:
Cattle, tuberculosis, SO per cent;
lumpy jaw, ii per cent; other causes.
per cent.
Hogs, tuberculosis. G5 per cent;
cholera and swine plague 20 per cent;
other causes, 8 per cent.
But the city inspectors have now
been withdrawn from the stock yards.
Tbs Beef srusl will dnd lf hard
10 get resting place when the peo-
pie OF this country rise against Il,
n thov ouro1v Vvil1 Tho poov,la ~ kl.A