Punch,  17 (1849), 165.

An Offer to Embrace all England

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Sanitation, Public Health, Engineering


    Responding to a proposal to 'embrace' the whole of the country with sewers, insists that Scotland 'must sweeten herself first' and warns that the 'slightest agitation' might result in the whole nation falling into sewers and of the possibility of gunpowder being placed in them.



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