Beef Trust warning over lumpy beef and appendicitis risk
Chicago Health Department warns that lumpy raw beef from local packers is a probable cause of appendicitis. The bulletin cites Chicago Medical Society findings on actinomycosis, condemning entire carcasses when infection reaches digestive or respiratory tracts, and urges stricter enforcement to protect consumers.
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Health Department
Chicago
Chicago Eagle
Commissioner of Health
Charles J. Whalen
Chicago Medical Society
Medical Society of London
Lancet
T. H. Kelloch
Arnold ©. Klebs
Sald
Beef Trust Tuberculosis Debate Rocks Chicago Press
The Chicago Eagle attacks government meat inspection as ineffective, citing Health Department bulletins from 1905 1906 and calls for action against the Beef Trust. It links tuberculosis in beef to packers profits, urges public accountability, and hints at forthcoming investigations of the Hoof Trust and meat sellers.
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Beef Trust
Dla
Chicago Health Department
Union Loop
van Buren Street
Watash
Fifth Avenues
Board of Education
Cooley
B. D. Dudley
Health Department
Chicago
Visiting Nurse Association
Arthur Aldi
Sachs
Board of Health
Trust
Chicago Eagle
Europe
America
City of Chicago
Kansas City
C. J. Whalen
Whelan
Mina Offensea
O Health Department
Union
New York
Chicago Newspaper Trust
Beef Trust Horrors and the Cancer Danger in Meat
A fervent critique of the beef trust argues meat carries cancer and other diseases. It cites tuberculosis in cows, lumpy jaw, and trichina, urging state slaughterhouses, public inspection, and end to private slaughtering to protect public health and life. The piece cites Lancet findings, Jamestown texts, and rising cancer rates to warn of contaminated meat and demand government action.
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Charles Howard Russell
Cincinnati
Roosevelt Hospital
New York
IBBAL
See Enereeneee
WEBB
WBBT
WBBB
VBSD
Seeeeesereenen
UBDO
Ee Seesereeene
Pennsylvania Hospital
Trust
London Lancet
Europe
Chicago
Jamestown
The
Beef Trust
United States
England
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Reef Trust
Illinois
Tuberculosis
Union Stock Yards
Ust
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