Further cholera measures

Further cholera measures proposed by the health councilor of Die Bremse.
Now that voluntary care for the poor has come to be equipped with the rights of the Council for Care of the Poor, the magistrate has concluded as follows for the general good:
1. The voluntary members caring for the poor will be enclosed by the old Catholic parishioners in public and general prayer.
2. The old Catholics will be disinfected by the voluntary fire department every three days with sulfurous cloths, because it is to be assumed that access to an old Catholic soul has just as many holes and cracks as an old disinfection tube.
3. The mayor commands these disinfections personally and disinfects himself.
4. In this manner the mayor helps himself and the fire department, they in turn help the old Catholics, they in turn help those caring for the poor, while those caring for the poor help cholera.
5. Given the presumed respect of cholera in the face of all these corporations we may fundamentally assume that it will quickly abscond.
6. Should it refuse to cooperate, the police will seize it for violating the authorities and imprison it until further notice.
(Die Bremse, Bavaria, 1873)