Chicago eagle., 1908-04-04
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 c. those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have had.
II a few Of the governmental omis.
slons are rectified how many thous.
ands are not?
How many homes IN Europe and
America are at this moment harboring
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle7
- above report Of the Health Com.
missioner Gglsaks of meat hanging In
the coolers Of tyRst houses. with tuber.
cular tumors "trimmed OUT ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking of the 3.035 OOO bounds Of
food condemned n 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DIR. G.
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 criml.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. It is now
In order to 60 step farther and flnd
out who is responsible for this moral
obliqulty.
"'It Is 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 stufis 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
coRtrol the food supply, brought ~ q
direct relation to public health.
"'It II high time that this matter
be taken out Of the class Of minor OF.
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIN
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
b war, when oil kinds Of brutality are
Anctioned. II 10 the height Of die.
h0nor--even murder-to poison the
water supply Of q country. 10 It any
better to poison the food supply3 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, 1905:
"The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1.343,343
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. 85 PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOsIS. ~ per cent for
mycosis-lumpy jaw-and I per
cent for hog cholera"
Health Department Bulletin, Dec. 9,
1905: "A total Of 147,00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
during the past week. under the su.
pervision Of the department inspectors
at 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 unfit for
human consumption during the past
three m0nths--slnce the resumption of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult..
By order Of the Commissioner have
reached immense proportions. much un.
6t food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats a. show gross
pathologlc conditions, recognizable By
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa.
cilities 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, 3 hogs aud O cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"rhe total stock yards condemnation
amounted to 116.SOS pounds
parts Of beef carcasses
In other words 1t has been and Ia
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumOrs and let the rest OF
the carcass 60 to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
@0A
During the twelve months prior Ia
the withdrawal of the city inspectors
from the stock yards, according to the
report of the Health Department fol
1906. issued In 1907, the city Inspectors
condemned and destroyed 28,O88 cat.
tie and hogs. The principal causes fol
condemnation were
Cattle, tuberculosis, SO per cent
lumpy jaw, II per cent; other causes
per cent.
Hogs, tuberculosis, G5 per cent
; cholera aud swine plague, 20 per cent
other causes, o per cent.
But the city inspectors have now
been withdrawn from the stock yards
~SAy
The following from the Chicago Rec
ord.Herald OF January I, 1908, explains
Itself:
Lansing, Mich, Jan. 3.-Clrcuit
Judge Wiess this afternoon In an opin'