Today in pulp: what were the top 10 causes of death in Victorian Britain*? Let's see...
(*according to the Illustrated Police News: "The worst newspaper in England!")
At #10: death by funeral! What an a-pall-ing way to go...
At #9: death by immodesty! Oh the dangers of public canoodling...
At #8: death by donkey! Silly old ass...
At #7: death by japery! The killing joke...
At #6: death by literary intent! A novel way to go...
At #5: death by corsetry! What a waist...
At #4: death by armed nunnery! Such bad habits...
At #3: death by reading in bed! You have been warned...
At #2: death by cats! You always suspected this might happen...
And the number one cause of death in Victorian Britain?
Death by impoliteness!
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