Genre:

Song

Subjects:

Public Health, Sanitation, Pollution, Lecturing

    Calls on all 'who say "Pooh" to the plain's of petitioners' to listen to John Simon, their 'own health inspector', who lectures on the 'various nastiness' hidden in the 'Best governed city of Europe'. Expatiates on the other reasons why London's mortality is 'twice what its numbers should be', including 'acres of cess-pool', poisonous gases emanating from graveyards, slaughter shops, and the Thames, 'a huge drainpool'.