Only those who want smallpox!

Joe Public: “Just look at what is foresight and what is ignorance! All who vaccinate and revaccinate are clean and healthy against the black plague! All those who do not vaccinate themselves, out of ignorance, through negligence, or simply a spirit of opposition, or are marked for life or go dragging that sucker to the netherworld! Only those who have smallpox and want to die of it; that is, anyone who does not get vaccinated!”
Smallpox: “Shut up, wretch! Do not tell these truths! Do not harm my death harvest!”
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1914) (shaky on the idiom)

Brazilian smallpox cartoon

Flight from Alsace

(At the French Foreign Legion Offices)
“Messieurs, according to our rules, we must draw your attention to the dangers that you can expect in the Foreign Legion: you can get sunstroke in Africa, malaria in Tonkin China, and sleeping sickness in the Congo…”
“It doesn’t matter, just so there are no Prussian lieutenants anywhere!”
(Der wahre Jacob, Stuttgart, 1914)

German sleeping sickness cartoon

Summery

“Hey, everyman, turn around! It is I, the Caucasian plague, who is coming to you!!”
“And I, the Balkan, going to war again!”
“And I, the Chinese, approaching your border…”
Summer everyman: “Damn it, damn the newspaper … Ach, it’s so pale and plump!”
(Novyi Satirikon, St. Petersburg, 1914)

Russian plague cartoon

Weekly show: Danse macabre

Synthesis of weekly public health newsletters…
A thrill of horror passes through Joe Public’s spine, seeing every week this danse macabre, touched by the inexorable Cape!…
And the one who also senses the consumption in his pockets, seems to exclaim:
“Good God, how long will I have to wait for these so-called Hygiene measures against this terrible specter that also makes me dance on the tightrope?!…”
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1914)

Brazilian tuberculosis cartoon

Bahia exports

(It has been verified that the yellow fever patients admitted to the isolation ward are all from Bahia.)
“This is what the relaxation of the Bahia government is exporting to Rio de Janeiro, associated with the sheer (?) disability of its Hygiene” (i.e., public health organizations).
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1914)

Brazilian yellow fever cartoon