Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-01-18
PACKERS b0RAC|C RECORDS
For the Past Three Years. Carefully Collected from Official
Reports and Press kilograms Furnish Pure Food
Data for the Campaign of 1908.

passed government inspection :. those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
Inspection we have had.
II few Of the governmental omis.
siOns IRE rectltied how many tlous.
ands are not?
How many HOMES IN Europe and
America are ut this moment hnrboring
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattlef
sslH aEs~e report Of the Health Com.
Ei.sAsones t,1als Of meat hanging In
the coolers OF yiVyy houses. with tubev.
cular tumors trimmed out" ~ealy tc
he cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3.035.OOn bounds Of
food condemned n 1908 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DR.. c.
J. whalen, Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WE'RE CONDEMNED on
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
Commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner whelan),
American Medicine December %.
says: One stands aghast ut the crlmi.
nal cupldlty which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectlng community. It Is now
In order to 60 step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
obliqulty.
"'1t is well known that combina.
lions Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails.
Ing the price Of food stufrs beyond the
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry bar
always been In protest against the In.
creased cost Of living, but here for the
crst time are the combinations which
control the food supply, brougSt ls1, q
direct relation to public health.
"'It 10 high time that THE natter
b taken out Of the class Of mino, OF.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIM
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
q war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. Il 10 the height ~ die.
honor -even murder-to poison the
water supply Of country. II Il any
better to poison the food suppiyf II
Ii time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction 4"
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health De.
partment Bulletin. November 4. 1905:
"The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1.813,S43
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. ~ PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS. ~ per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and I per
cent for hog cholera"
~9A
Health Department Bulletin. Dec. o.
1905: "A total Of $4,000 pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
during the past week) under the ~.
pervIsion Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4,0S3 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.
her II. 1905:
although the condemnation and de-.
structiOn Of food supplies unfit for
human consumption during the past
three mOnths--since the resumption OF
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult..
BY order Of the COmmlssiOner-have
reached immense proportions, much un.
ut food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats as show gross
patholOglc conditions, recognizable BY
the 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 30 parts
Of beef carcasses, 8 hogs aud o cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"The total stock yards condemnation
amounted to l76.SOs pounds"
parts Of beef carcasses !"
In other wOrds-it has been and ID
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tun:Ors and let the rest OF
the carcass 90 to the people for food
Aud yet we call ourselves civilized.
~
During the twelve months prior tc
the withdrawal Of the city Inspector,
from the stock yards. according to the
report of the Health Department fol
1906, issued In 1907, the city inspectors
condemned and destroyed 2GO06 cat
tie and hogs. The principal causes fol
condemnation were:
Cattle, tuberculosis, So per cent
lumpy jaw, II per cent; other causes
1 per cent.
Hogs, tuberculosis, G5 per cent
cholera and swine plague, 20 per cent
other causes, per cent.
But the city inspectors have now
been withdrawn from the stock yards
~
The following from the Chicago Rec
ord Herald Of January 4, 1908, explains
itself:
Lansing. Mich, Jan. 3.--CIrcuit
Judge Wless this afternoon In an Opln
lon held that the use Of cereal ana wa
ter In sausage Is an adulteratiOn of the
product and brings 1t within the scope