Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-03-07
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 e: shoss
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have had.
II few Of the governmental omis.
sions are rectifed how many thous.
ands are not7
How many homes In Europe and
America are at this moment harborius
cuts Of meat from tuberculosis cattle /
~ atc~s report Of the Health Com.
nAsooef s.Non Of meat hanging 10
the coolera q vvQsv houses. with tuber.
cular tumors trimmed out" ready 10
be cut into steaks.
Speaking Of the a.Oa5.OOn hounds Of
food condemned n 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 q,
says: One stands aghast at the crimi.
nal cupidity which will Induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspectlng community. Il 10 now
In order to 60 q step farther and nnd
out who ID responsible for this moral
obliquity.
at 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 stufs beyond the
point to which healthy competitiov
would reduce them. The outcry ~
always been In protest against the 10.
creased cost Of living. but here for The
arst time are the combinations which
coaerol the food supply, beoueS< No. .
direct relation to public health.
ut 10 high time that THE m>ttsr
b taken out Of the class Of mino, OF.
lenses AND THE DEALERS THnN.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN ran
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS, Even
y war, when al kinds Of brutality are
suctioned. Il h thu height ~ dle.
lonor- -even murder-to poison the
Fater supply Of q country. 10 Il any
Ietter to poison the food supplyf Il
time that the public mind should
svelop conscience In this direction"
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
ad the following from the Health De.
lrtment Bulletin. November 4, 1906:
THE total amount Of meats con.
dnned during the period was l.843,3l3
atnds. OF the principal causes Of
Exclamation. ~ PER CENT WERE
W TUBERCULOSIS. ~ per cent for
aeiomycosis-lumpy jaw-and 4 per
ce for hog cholera"
~9A
talth Department Bulletin, Dec. Q.
100 "A total Of 147,00O pounds Of
mea was condemned and DESTROYED
(du,g the past weekly under the ~.
perwon of the department inspectors
ut { Union Stock Yards. This In.
c'ude 1858 pounds Of governmental.
slect cut meats shipped from pack.
ing tises In the West for Chicago
city tde and canning"
Hea, Department Bulletin, Novem.
Der li9O6:
"Altugh the condemna ton and de.
structt Of food supplies unnt for
humanonsumption during the past
three nnths-since the resumption Of
SUCK Ids inspection August Z ult.,
oy orc. Of the Commissioner have
reached ,mense proportions, much un.
NJ food tll reaches the market. Only
sucn anhls and meats a. show gross
patno'oe conditions. recognizable By
the nakaye. are now condemned. Ia.
cii't'es 2 microscopic laboratory ex.
am'natiohave not yet been restored.
1.-THE ubn Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condt,ed and destroyed 81 parts
; OF 0eel csasses. 8 hogs and O cattle
WHICH I'D BEEN PASSED by
THE COMMENT INSPECTORS.
A"o soostOck yards concentrations
. amounted 'i76.SOs pounds"
Parts oeef carcasses I"
, In otherords II has been and Ia
tue practic$ cut out the cancers and
tuoercular liOrs and let the rest OF
tue carcass to the people for food
Anu YET scall ourselves civilized.
: ~
Turing Twelve months prior to
tue withdra' OF the city inspectors
from tue stewards, according to the
report OF th'iealth Department for
i"U'. issued 1907. the city inspectors
: condemned "'destroyed 26.O08 cat.
D tie and hogs. ~ nrIncIno, cons.s o.,
condemnation re
Cattle. tubtlosis, SO per cent
iumPy Jaw Ter cent; other causes,
J. 4 per cent.
= Hogs, tuberDsls. az Nor cont
: cno'era ana sw plague. 20 per cent
other causes, o cent.
But the city,spettors have now
peeh withdrawnm the stock yards.
r ~
i The following m the Chicago Rec.
oru,heraid OF Jary I, 1908, explains
itself:
LANSING Micl Jan. 3.-Circult
!. | Indigo Wiess this a..oo,, a., ~. -.