Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21
PACKERS B0RACIC 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 q. those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have had.
II few Of the governmental omis.
sions are rectified how many thous.
ands are not2
How many homes IN Europe and
America are Mt this moment harboring
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattlef
~ above report Of the Health Com.
missioner apookD Of meat hanging ip
the coolera q ty1Dt houses. with tuber.
cular tumors trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3.035.O0o sounds Of
food condemned n 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. G.
]. 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 q,
says: One stands aghast at the crimi.
nal cupldity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. Il Ii now
In order to 60 step farther and nnd
out who 10 responsible for this moral
obllquity.
cit II well known that combine.
lions Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails.
Ing the price Of food stuffs beyond the
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
coaerol the food supply. brougat ~ q
direct relation to public health.
ut 10 high time that this natter
be taken out Of the class Of mino, OF.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN The
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
IN war, when all kinds Of brutality are
~nctioned. Il 10 the height Of de.
honor--even murder-to poison the
water supply Of q country. 10 It any
better to poison the food supply? Il
10 time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction"
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 1.34S,8l8
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. IS PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS. ~ per cent for
actinomycosls-lumpy jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
Health Department Bulletin. Dec. Q.
1905: "A total Of 147,00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and DESTROYED
(during the past weekly under the "a.
pervlsion Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 1888 pounds Of governmental.
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.
struction 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.
nt food still reaches the market Only
such animals and meats % show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable By
the naked eye. are now condemned. Fa.
cilities for microscopic laboratory OK.
animation have not yet been restored.
"The Union Stock Yards city lnspec.
tors condemned aud destroyed 80 parts
Of beef carcasses, 8 hogs and O cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"The total stock yards condemna lions
amounted to l76.SO8 pounds"
"Parts Of beef carcasses |"
In other words It has been and 10
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tunors and let the rest Of
the carcass 60 to the people for food I
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
~
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
1900. issued In 1907, the city inspectors
condemned and destroyed o6O88 cat.
tie and hogs. The principal causes for
condemnation We're:
Cattle, tuberculosis, 50 per cent !;
lumpy jaw, II per cent; other causes,
4 per cent.
Hogs, tuberculosis, G5 per cent |;
cholera and swine plague, 20 per cent !;
other causes, 3 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 Wiess this afternoon In an opin.
Ion held that the use of cereal and wa
tor In sausnOa IA nm odultoro tton 90 tho