Punch,  12 (1847), 190.

The Dirty London Alderman

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary; Song, Satire

Subjects:

Sanitation, Disease, Public Health


    Presents a 'nursery song' on the subject of the Corporation of London, which recoils from coming under the Health of Towns Bill of George Howard (Viscount Morpeth). The narrator of the poem tries unsuccessfully to shame the corporation into washing itself, and laments its mud-strewn thoroughfares, open sewers, and leaky gas pipes.



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