Where did cholera originate?

Mattie the goose-boy (mascot of the eponymous Hungarian satirical magazine): “Well, you can’t beat this Menyus housekeeper! He’s been around for years, letting all this dirt and garbage accumulate. Is it any wonder cholera has struck him?”
The man (“Menyus”) with the pitchfork tossing out the “dignity of parliament” is Prime Minister Baron Menyhért Lónyay, a frequent object of ridicule in this magazine due to the corruption that plagued his brief tenure. The pieces of paper refer to speculation, deficits, losses, railroad concession, subventions, bank politics, etc. I can’t say anything specific about the anti-semitic caricature in the lower left, though we may presume it is meant to represent stereotypical Jewish banking interests.
(Ludas Matyi, Budapest, 1872)

Hungarian cholera cartoon

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