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鄉村環境衞生 (Community sanitation in the countryside), 1952

鄉村環境衞生 (Community sanitation in the countryside), Propaganda Office of the Central Ministry of Health, 1952

This poster provides scenes show ways of preventing infectious diseases by keeping the rural areas clean through proper waste, refuse, and sewage management; by keeping the living environment clean, especially kitchens, drinking wells, and livestock; and by eliminating rats, flies, mosquitoes and lice.


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Poster with 3 horizontal panels of images and text showing ways of preventing infectious diseases by keeping one’s environment clean, title on top

This poster series produced by the Propaganda Office of the Central Ministry of Health in 1952 uses panels of images to educate citizens on the various ways of preventing disease from keeping their environment, water, and food clean to getting vaccinations and eradicating vectors of disease like lice, mosquitoes, and flies