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请不要随地吐痰 (Please Don't Spit on the Ground) ca. 1964

请不要随地吐 (Please Don't Spit on the Ground), The Patriotic Health Movement Committee of Tianjin, The Tuberculosis Prevention Institute of Tianjin, and the Tianjin Branch of the National Anti-Tuberculosis Association of China; painted by Liu Yinglin and Wang Yunxiang, ca. 1964

This poster pictures a child to address other children to avoid spitting on the ground. Below are images that instruct citizens to spit in a chamber pot or in a napkin and burn the used napkin on a stove.


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Poster with a main image of a young man getting a chest X-ray by a physician on top, text in the middle on a brown banner, and two small line drawings in circles showing a mobile x-ray van and people walking in and out of a clinic

This anti-TB poster series produced by the Patriotic Health Movement Committee of Tianjin, The Tuberculosis Prevention Institute of Tianjin, and the Tianjin Branch of the National Anti-Tuberculosis Association of China, ca. 1964, teaches people about some of the basic preventative measures to keep from getting ill with TB. Explore the other posters below.


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