Viennese epidemic barracks

Provisional.
Stable.
(Kikeriki, Vienna, 1892)
An adjacent story lists the epidemic illnesses then prevailing in the city: street-paving-disease; city-theater-Sunday-afternoon-performance-fever; stock-market-congestion with migraine effects and scenery-typhus; general-intestinal-contraction among small business as a consequence of great virulence of intermittent brokeness; prizewinning-Danube-dropsy; robbery-fear in the watchmaker association; acute tram-crowding; catalepsy of the greater Vienna roadworks commission; food-marasmus; cholera-comma-bacillus-mania.

Austrian cholera cartoon

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