Against cholera

The public health authorities have advised: “Our salvation against cholera lies in fire. Let’s cook our food very well, let’s boil our drinking water well.”
In short: let us be careful, cook everything, watch for the boiling point, like in San Salvador!
(second image) Yet insofar as the measure is really good, it should be expanded… And, we say to ourselves: Let’s cook the newspapers daily that feed our spirit with the indigestible prose of odious and personal campaigns!
Only thus may we fear in tranquillity…
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1910)

Brazilian cholera cartoon

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