Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

Disease, Public Health, Sanitation, Medical Practitioners

    Describes the imminent arrival of 'King Cholera' from Northern Europe. Attacks England's 'curs'd Boards of Health, / Its sewers, and drains, and inspectors' who 'keep poking their nose' wherever cholera goes. Believes cholera's friends include the boards of the health and the 'doctors and drainers' who consider self-government to be the solution to the problem of the disease.