Expelling the plague

Oswaldo Cruz [Brazilian public health figure]: “Look here, plague of the devil! You are now making fun with me… I have the law for the expulsion of foreigners. It’s empty plates for you! I’ll throw you out of the bar!”
The Plague: “Sir? As long as there are mice and crap, and as long as little more is done out there against them than fumigation and reports… I have the habeas corpus guaranteed and I will stay here as well as in my seven country houses! I will not go!”
(Note how the scythe is no longer only Asiatic, but now also Levantine and American.)
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1907)

Epidemic sexism

Title: “Malicious.” This image relies on some punning in German, where malen means drawing or painting, and Malweiber is a somewhat derogatory way of referring to women who draw. “Just look at all those women drawing over there! It’s already practically an epidemic!” “Yes, yes, in a way it’s ‘malaria’!”
(Fliegende Blätter, Munich, 1907)

O this hygiene!

“Look, Moritz is spitting in the sea.”
“So where is he supposed to spit if it’s forbidden everywhere?”
(Die Muskete, Vienna, 1907)

A visit to the minister of war

“My best thanks, Excellency, for putting the military at my disposal in Adelsberg [Postojne in the Slovenian countryside northeast of Trieste], where I currently rule.”
“Fine, fine! But who are you?”
“I am Typhus!”
(Kikeriki, 1907)

The plagued sick man [of Europe]

Turkey pursued by Austria and Russia with syringes full of reforms. “Lord God of the Christians, here come these stupid guys again with their syringes and yet they could put them to use for themselves.” (Included mainly for the use of the clystère theme.)
(Nebelspalter, Zurich, 1907)