Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-05-02
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 at those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have had.
II q few Of the governmental omis.
slOns are rectlfed how many thous.
ands are not7
How many homes IN Europe and
America are at this moment harboring
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattlef
IN above report Of the Health Com.
missioner epoo1D Of meat hanging 10
the coolers Of tyQDt houses. With tuber.
cular tumors trimmed out" ready 10
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the 8.o35. ON mounds Of
food condemned "a 1905 BY Chicago
Health Department inspectors, DR.. @.
]. 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 "a,
says: One stands aghast at the crimi.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt to cell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. Il 10 now
In order to 60 q step farther and nnd
out who ID responsible for this moral
obliquity.
"'It Ii well known that comblna.
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 competitiop
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
co1krol the food supply, broueht ~ q
direct relation to public health.
ut 10 high time that this n>ttee
b taken out Of the class Of mino, of.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEN.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN TIN
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Byen
b war, when oil kinds Of brutality are
@nctioned. Il 10 The height of dis.
honor--even murder-to poison TIE
water supply Of q country. 10 Il any
better to poison the food supplyi Il
10 time that the public mind should
develop Q conscience In this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust Tuberculosis
read the following from the Health Do.
partment Bulletin. November 4. 1905:
The total amount Of meats con.
demned during the period was 1,8l8,8l8
pounds. OF the principal causes Of
condemnation. S6 PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, u per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and 4 per
cent for bog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. Q.
1905: "A total Of 147,00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and DESTROYED
during the past week. under the %.
pervision Of the department inspectors
at the Union Stock Yards. This In.
cludes 4,868 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-
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 Commissioners have
reached Immense proportions, much nm.
nt food stili reaches the market Only
such animals and meats % show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable By
the naked eye. are now condemned. "a.
cilitles for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
"The Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned and destroyed 80 parts
Of beef carcasses, 8 hogs and o cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
1.-THE total stock yards condemnat ious
amounted to l70,S08 pounds"
parts Of beef carcasses
In other words II has been and 10
the practice to cut out the cancers aud
tubercular tumOrs and let the rest Of
the carcass 90 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
1905. issued In 1907, the city inspectors
condemned and destroyed 28,O08 cat.
tie and hogs. The principal causes for
condemnation were:
Cattle, tuberculosis, Sc per cent |:
lumpy Jaw. IA per cent; other causes,
4 per cent.
Hogs, tuberculosis, O. 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.
The following from the Chicago Rec
ord'Herald of January 4. 1908. explains
itself:
Lansing, Mich, Jan. 3.-Circult
Judge Wiess this afternoon In an opin.
lon held that the use OF cereal and wa.
ter In sausage IL an adulteratlon of the