Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-01-04
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.

| ployment Of boric acid and other chem.
icals for the preparation and preserva-
ton Of food. lie points out that the
death rate from enteritis, appendicitis
and perityphlitls increased In Great
Britain during the twenty.year period
Of 1SS0-1OO4 from 1873 to 3O5 per 1000.
GOO.
According to DIR. Harrison's theory,
the process by which the bOric acid
produces appendicitis is mechanical
and Indirect, the first step being the
development of fatulent dyspepsia
now recognized as being an almost In.
evitable effect of the presence of such
preservatives In the fOod--and the sec.
ond step being the entrance of gas into
the appendix. DR.. Harrison says:
1.-The initial lesion which probably
renders appendicitis possible Is the
! opening or blowing out of the appen.
dcal canal to such degree as to rem.
der 1t accessible to the contents of the
intestines. When this condi.
ton has thus been fairly well estab-
lished, the ease and life Of the appen.
dix, not to say anything Of the indi.
vidual, IRE liable to become preca.
rlOus.'
"ln support Of his contentious, DR..
Harrison quotes DR.. Beaver, Of Phila.
delphia, and recent address BY DR..
Richard Jones to the North Wales
branch Of the British Medical Asso.
citation. In which also occurred this
passage:
"There can be no doubt that the
continuous Introduction Of these chemi.
cal substances into the system inter.
feres with digestion. depresses the
heart action, and injuriously affects
the kidneys.'
THAT no credence can be placed In
the sometimes heard assertion that the
food prepared In this country for do.
nestle consumption Is free from many
Of the ladultcrations that characterize
the exported articles, seems proved by
an experience related to reporter by
a man just returned from vacation
spent In one Of the less accessible parts
Of the Berkshires. Practically the only
meat that could be obtained was bacon
In glass jars, bought ut little village
grocery miles away. As rule the
Jars sent for were put up by New
York firm. But one dry, while making
meal on frizxled bacon from such q
jar, both the informant and bis wife
noticed a peculiar burning sensation
In the throat and the canal connecting
1t with the nose.
Some experimenting proved quickly
that the bacon was wholly responsible
for the unpleasant effect. The jar was
then examined and was found to have
been put up by one Of the best.known
and most widely advertised meat firms
In Chicago. It was cOncluded--and
properly, according to consulted author.
lties-that the observed sensation was
caused by tho presence In the bacon
either Of some such preservative as
borlc acid or some coloring substance,
or both"
Always remember that In order to
please the packers there In no longer
city inspection at the Union Stock
Yards.
The withdrawal Of the city inspect
ora from the big packing houses at the
stock yards was an awful thing. We
take the following from page % Of the
annual report Of the Chicago Health
Department for 1905. issued In 1906:
AT the Union Stock Yards during
the last five months Of the year, the
seven inspectors five Of whom were
appointed In November) have con.
demned and destroyed 2.7O4,O3S
pounds OF meat, as being unfit for
food; all OF which would have been
sold In the City Of Chicago and for
which the purchaser would have paid
first class prices. From these figures
1t Is very evident that inspection by
the city Of all food products Is Of un-
told value, not only from a financial,
but also from a sanitary and hyglenic
standpoint.
"The following will show how neces-
sary city inspection Is ut the Union
Stock Yards:
"Ihe city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers and on the cut
ting floors, AFrER PASSING GOV
ERNMENT INSPECTION:
'l25 cattle, cause, actinomycOsls.
'D7 cattle, cause, emaciation.
"24 cattle, cause, tuberculOsls-ev
dence OF the disease having been
trimmed out.
'l8 sheep, cause, 'dOwners.'
"27 sheep, cause, pneumonia.
'N hogs, pyaemia and tuberculosis.
AZTEC pounds Of cut meats ship.
ped from st. Louis, Omaha, etc. for
canning. This meat was sour and
Shiny"
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The Health Department reports for
years back have been interesting read.
ing for people who give thought to the
matter Of pure food:
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo.
Der 20, 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the Union