Chicago eagle., 1908-03-14
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.

pusseu 8ONeTHHeut inspectlCu y. SuOSe
places"
This shows the sort Of government
inspection we have had.
II q few of the governmental omis.
sions 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 cattlef
AsES above report Of the Health Com.
haieA.oDes r,sAks Of meat hanging 10
the coolers OF vrssy houses. with tuber-
cular tumors trimmed OUT ready to
I've cut into steaks
Speaking Of the 3.935.O0" hounds Of
food condemned N 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DR.. G.
]. 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 ut the crlmi.
nal cupidlty which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to 60 a step farther and find
out who Is responsible for this moral
"'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 stufYs 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
coA.rol the food supply, brought iaa, q
direct relation to public health.
"'It is high time that thls m after
be taken out Of the class Of minO, OF.
fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THD
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
to war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. It Ia the height of die.
honor--even murder-to poison the
water supply Of a country. Is It any
better to poison the food supply7 II
Is 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. IS PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS. ~ per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec. 0,
1905: ~ total Of 147.00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
(during the past week. under the su.
pervision Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
clhdes 4.OS3 pounds Of governmental.
spected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
Health Department Bulletin. Novem.
ber II. 1905:
although the condemnation and de.
struction Of food supplies unfit for
human consumption during the past
three mOnths-since the resumption of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
BY order Of the Commissioner
reached immense proportions, much un.
ut food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats as show gross
pathOlOgic conditions, recognizable BY
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa.
cillties 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, 3 hogs and o cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'The total stock yards condemnation
amounted to l76,SOS pounds"
parts Of beef carcasses
In other words 1t has been and is
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.
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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
l0O6. issued in 1907, the city inspectors
condemned and destroyed 26.O86 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, 65 per cent |;
cholera and swine plague, 20 per cent /;
other causes, 8 per cent.
But the city inspectors have now
been withdrawn from the stock yards.
The following from the Chicago Rec.
ord-IIerald of January 4, 1905, explains
itself:
Lansing, Mich, Jan. 3.-Circuit
Judge Wiess this afternoon In an opin.
ion held that the use of cereal and wa.
ter in sausage Is an adulteratiOn of the
product and brings 1t within the scope