Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-04-11
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 a: shose
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have had.
If q few of the governmental omis.
sions are rectifed how many thous.
ands are not2
How many homes IN Europe and
America are at this moment harborlng
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle7
NJ aba.e report Of the Health Com.
niofoner gasal1 Of meat hanging In
the coolers Of tVst houses. with tuber.
cular tumors trimmed OUT. ready tc
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 1906. ON bounds Of
food condemned n 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. G.
i 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 at the crimi.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectlng community. II Is now
In order to 90 a step farther and find
out who Ii responsible for this moral
obliquity.
att Ii 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 stufIs beyond the
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry hae
always been In protest against the In.
creased cost Of living, but here for the
0rst time are the combinations which
coRkrol the food supply, BROUGHT inAn q
direct relation to public health.
ut 10 high time that thio natter
be taken out Of the class Of minor OF.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THD
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
b war, when all kinds Of brutality are
mnctioned. Il 10 the height Of dls.
honor--even murder-to poison the
water supply Of q country. 10 II any
better to poison the food supplyf Il
10 time that the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction"
Speaking Of Reef 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,sAS,8l8
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation, 65 PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, u per cent for
electromagnetic jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. o,
1905: "A total Of $4,000 pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
(durlng the past week) under the 81.
pervision Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4,0S3 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 have
reached immense proportions. much un.
ct food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats 40 show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable BY
the naked eye, are now condemned. Ea.
cilltles for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
"The Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned and destroyed SO parts
Of beef carcasses, 3 hogs and Q cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
1.-THE total stock yards condemnation
amounted to l70.80S pounds"
parts Of beef carcasses
In other words 1t has been and ID
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumors and let the rest OF
the carcass 20 to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
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During the twelve months prior t.
the withdrawal Of the city inspectors
from the stock yards, according to thu
report Of the Health Department fol
1905. issued In 1907, the city inspectors
condemned and destroyed 26,O88 cat
tie and hogs. The principal causes fol
condemnation were:
Cattle, tuberculosis, 50 per cent
lumpy jaw, IA per cent; other causes
per cent.
Hogs, tuberculosis. G5 per cent
cholera aud swine plague, 20 per cent
other causes, 8 per cent.
But the city inspectors have now
been withdrawn from the stock yards
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The following from the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald Of January 4, 1908, explains
itself:
Lansing, Mich, Jan. 3.-Circuit