Affected Swell: “Aw–I say–Mr. Jones–did you evah see the horwid small pawks?”
Jones (funny man): “Oh! Yes–had one for dinner on Sunday–sucking pigs, you know, we call’ em.”
(Swell collapses)
(Sydney Punch, 1881)

In 1881 Sydney, Australia, suffered a smallpox epidemic whose earliest infections likely stemmed from China, with the authorities once again resorting to strict quarantine. In this cartoon the nervousness about harbor connections to ships quarantined offshore invited a play on a Gilbert & Sullivan ditty.
(Sydney Punch, 1881)