Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07
PACKERS b0RAC|C RECORDS
For the Past Three Years. Carefully Collected from Ocia
Reports and Press kilograms, Furnish Pure Food
Data for the Campaign of 1908.

passed government inspection at those
plaCA"
This shows the sort Of governinent
inspection we have had.
II few Of the governmental Un,is-
slOns are rectiHed how many ti,ous-
ands are not?
How many ho.sie- IN Europe and
America are at this moment harlorine
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattief
A.ls esscye report Of the Health Com
Li..a..:hee s.A.Iks Of meat hanging In
the coolers OF ,ssssy houses. with tuhcr-
cular tumors trimmed out" rpady 10
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3.O35. .OON pountis az
food condemned m 1905 by Chicasp
Health Department inspectors, DR.. G.
j. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THn
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED ON
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOsIS."
commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whelan).
American Medicine December "a
says: One stands aghast at the criml-
nal cupldlty which will induce men b
attempt to sell such dangerous foods 10
an unsuspecting community. It ID nov
In order to 60 step farther and iud
out who Is responsible for this morsl
obllqulty.
"'lt Is well known that combine.
tions Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails
Ing the price of food stuffs beyond thu
point to which healthy competjtiou
would reduce them. The outcry hoe
always been in protest against the In.
creased cost Of living. but here for tn
erst time are the combinations which
coA:rol the food supply, brought ~, .
direct relation to public health.
"'lt Ii high time that thlS d. >ttee
be taken out Of the class Of mino, Of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEN.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN rHn
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Hvee
To war. when all kinds of brutality aro
sanctioned. Il II the height of a..
honor even murder-to poison ~
water supply Of a country. II Il any
better to poison the food supplyi it
10 time TINT the public mind sl,ouil
develop conscience in this directions
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
rend the following from the Health De-
partment Bulletin. November 4, 1905:
"The total amount of meats con-
demned during the period was i,343.3lS
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. 81 PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, ~ per cent for
actinomycosis-lumpy jaw-and 1 pes
cent for hog cholera"
~SA
Health Department Bulletin, Dec. q
l0O0: "a total Of 147,00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
(durlng the past week. under the su-
pervislOn Of tho department inspectors
mt 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-
structlon 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 Commissioner
reached Immense proportions, much un-
ut food still reaches the market. Oniy
such animals and meats 40 show groas
pathologlc conditions. recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. r.
cilities for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
"The Union Stock Yards city Inspcc-
tors condemned and destroyed 30 parts
OF beef carcasses, 3 hogs and cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
''The total stock yards condemnatious
amounted to 17G.SOS pounds"
"Parts Of beef carcasses I"
In other words It has been and 10
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tuberculnr tumOrs aud let the rest Of
the carcass 60 to the people for food!
And yet We call ourselves civilized.
~SA
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
l0OG, issued In 1907, the city Inspectors
condemned and destroyed 26,O9G cat-
tie and hogs. The principal causes for
condemnation were:
Cattle, tuberculosis, 50 per cent;
lumry jaw, ii per cent; other causes,
1 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.
~6
The Beef Frusl will find It hard
70 get resting place when the peo-
pie of this country rise against It
as they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for its exter-