Genre:

Advertisement, Satire

Subjects:

Disease, Public Health, Sanitation

    Describes the opening of the 'premises' of 'Messrs. Plague, Pestilence, & Co.' in London, for supplying 'first-class Epidemics'. Its 'works' comprise 'Intra-mural Burying Grounds' from which it supplies 'Poisonous Gases', a 'System of Sewers', and 'A Noble Plant of the most approved Nuisances, situated in densely peopled neighbourhoods'.