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患者住在團體自辦療養室裡, 由防癆機構的醫師定期來診治或指導… (Doctors come to the sanatorium to check on patients), 1953

患者住在團體自辦療養室裡, 由防癆機構的醫師定期來診治或指導… (Doctors come to the sanatorium to check on patients), Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association, 1953

In 1953, the Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association produced a large series of anti-TB posters. This poster shows patients in a sanatorium, where they have been isolated to recover, playing a Chinese game called “go” and reading as a doctor and a nurse are visiting.


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Poster with a cityscape featuring Tiananmen, a farm, factories, and a Chinese flag on each side of a red star in the sky, text in the middle.

In 1953 the Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association produced a large series of anti-TB posters that sought to educate the public on the causes, symptoms, treatments, and methods of preventing the spread of TB.


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