Punch,  27 (1854), 207.

What a Londoner has Reason to be Proud of!

Anon

Genre:

Essay, Satire

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Public Health, Sanitation, Time, Technology,


    Discusses some of the advantages of living in London, which turn out to be disadvantages. These include water drawn from the Thames, a river acting as 'the largest Sewer in the World', and clocks that never agree with each other. The illustration shows Mr Punch in Elizabethan costume standing over sewage pipes beneath a street.



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