Ringmaster Fitz: “Now then, Dummy, jump through the hoops.”
(Smith’s Weekly, Sydney, 1919)
John Daniel Fitzgerald, minister of public health in New South Wales during the global flu pandemic, is mocked here for his aggressive response to the crisis. Elsewhere Smith’s Weekly referred to him as “lord of the masks and master of the microbes.” See also this image depicting him making his disinfected rounds in a government vehicle:
Sic Transit Pestilentia 