Beef Trust Warning Warns Against Lumpy Jaw Beef
Chicago Health Department upholds Chicago Eagle claim that lumpy raw beef from local packers causes appendicitis. Commissioner Charles J. Whalen notes actinomycosis in humans and cattle, urges condemning entire carcasses when lesions invade mouth or digestive tract, and cites inspector guidance and London medical discourse. Public health critics blame unsanitary stockyards and call for removal of the Beef Trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Health Department
Health Department
Chicago
Chicago Eagle
Commissioner of Health
Charles J. Whalen
The
Chicago Medical Society
Acus
Medical Society of London
Bay
Lancet
T. H H. Kelloch
Diseased Meat Condemned Inside the Loop Prompting Outcry
Chicago Health Department inspectors condemn about 50 000 pounds weekly of tubercular cancerous and maggot ridden meat sold inside the loop area bounded by the river Van Buren Waheeh and Fifth avenues. A call for enforcing laws against selling diseased meat and a critique of the Beef Trust follow.
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Chicago Health Department
Union Loop
Loop
van Buren Street
Waheeh
Fifth Avenues
Beef Trust urged to stop tuberculosis tainted meat
The Chicago Eagle decries beef from tuberculous cattle sold under lax inspection. It cites Health Department bulletins from 1905 2005 and 2006 detailing condemnations at Union Stock Yards and in retail markets. The piece accuses meat barons of profit over public health and calls for a legislative probe and decisive action.
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Arnon C. Klebs
Chicago Medical Society
Chicago
Beef Trust
Board of Education
Cooley
B.D. Dudley
Health Department
Visiting Nurse Association
Arthur Aldis
Sachs
Board of Health
Trust
Chicago Eagle
Europe
America
Chicago Health Department
Union Stock Yards
St. Louis
Kansas City
C. J. Whalen
Commissioner Whelan
Union
Chicago City
Beef Trust Horrors and the Hidden Slaughterhouse Truth
A powerful critique by Charles Edward Russell attacks the Beef Trust for monopolizing food supply and concealing slaughterhouse practices. He cites rising cancer rates linked to diseased cattle, calls for state controlled slaughterhouses, and cites Lancet and Jamestown sources to demand government action and public sanitation reforms.
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Charles Edward Russell
Cincinnati
Roosevelt Hospital
New York
Pennsylvania Hospital
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Lauder Brunton
Itas
Illinois
Bulletin
Dee
Beef ‘Trust
London Lancet
Jamestown
N. Y
United States
England
Chicago Trust
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