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Show MEAT INSPECTION A First Hand Revelation of a System That Menaces Public Health. In the World's Work, Dr. W. K. Jaques, formerly director of the Chicago Chi-cago laboratory and In charge of thc meat Inspection at the stockyards, tells of the inefficiency and corruption of thc local inspection and how the health of thc nation Is menaced bv these conditions. condi-tions. Among other things he says: "During the first month in which I was City Director, ono meat inspector made only one condemnation for that month, ami that of an immature calf. Another inspector made no report to me of any work done during my entire term of ofneo, und 1 was powerless to compel him to do so because of his poll. po-ll. 1 back,"S- It ls needless to say that ho drew his salary regularly. Still another meat Inspector was engaged In mud beef for packers." The accuracy and thoroughness of be hX ?' G1ovcrVment 'Pector; can from rnn ,l is tlmafed that under tho ovf,CllU1P are ofle" k,1Id alvfr, y'M.a slnsle Rector In back n,T ?Bhl lJen hours. Walking Dccis, tho inspector, caa Kive onl. tt briefest glance at the aalM being converted '"".ft s,ance ho is Jjfli, dences of difceaae, iBNi may require hours to flf to ascertain If the Js spectlon were sufficient public. To this ond WN and unannounced B"Jmt. On ono occasion 1 JjM o'clock In the morn ng Mp Standard Slaughter leg company, which ! .Jfc. mals condemned to "3m& men and Slate "sfflKv load of meat Jusl U was near enough "jjJWii I entered the f,Y'fc in sight: nor couhl -fifteen minutes. TW i watchman, who &a$Mfr Information about n In the room In fuH fsM and open to the Putb''fitiBf of beef having on HW; the State pwJmA, ment tug of condem-JJ meat was not unde. .' required by GS?mKl nor was there an belns carried off- f, fcW Mi inspectors to a slau, orders to kerosene fi gm unfit for use. He; "PI: of great Indlgnatlor saying that the SK.1 long to kean him md -Why." said hc,51Jlsi hogs that were f'Tyimi and went to get ?LHk When I returned tne left. 'Where are 'frM asked, and tho pj are in sausage b, luw |