Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-05-09
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 g: those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have had.
II a few Of the governmental omis.
sions are rectifled how many thOus.
ands are not2
How many homes In Europe and
America are Mt this moment harboring
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattlef
TAs above report Of the Health Com.
s0!Aeones C1saks Of meat hanging In
the coolers Of tIRst houses. with tuber.
cular tumors trimmed out" ready to
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 3.035OOn 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 WERE 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 unsuspecting community. II Is now
In order to 90 q step farther and find
out who II responsible for this moral
obliquity.
eft 10 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 stueIs beyond the
point 10 which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry has
always been In protest against tie In.
creased cost OF living. but here for the
erst time are the combinations which
coaerol the food supply. beouoht w Q
direct relation 70 public health.
"'It 10 high time that thlo a>tter
b taken out Of the class Of mino, az.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIN
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
b war. when oil kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. Il II the height Of die.
honor--even murder-to poison The
water supply Of . country. II Il any
better to poison the food supplyf II
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 l.8l3,343
pounds. OF the principal causes OF
condemnation. S5 PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, ~ per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. 0,
1905: "A total Of $4,000 pounds OF
meats was condemned and DESTROYED
During the past weekly under the 81.
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"
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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.
ht food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats a. show gross
pathologic 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. 8 hogs aud q cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'"rhe total stock yards concentrations
amounted to l76,808 pounds"
"Parts Of beef carcasses r.
In other words Il has been and 10
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumors aud let the rest of
the carcass 90 to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
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During the twelve months prior 70
the withdrawal Of the city inspectors
from the stock yards. according to the
report Of the Health Department for
1908. issued In 1907, the city inspectors
condemned and destroyed 20O86 cat.
tie and hogs. The principal causes for
condemnation were:
Cattle. tuberculosis, SO per cent
lumpy jaw. II per cent; other causes,
per cent.
Hogs, tuberculosis, 85 per cent
cholera and swine plague. 20 PER cent
other causes. o 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
Judge Wless this afternoon In an Opin.
Ion held that the use of cereal and wa.