Caution against sexually transmitted disease. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.

London : H.M. Stationery Office, [1941] (London : Lowe & Brydone)

1 print : lithograph, printed in black, grey, russet, orange and green ; sheet 37.5 x 25.3 cm

Guard against venereal disease. Keep straight. Keep sober. You owe it to yourself. Your womenfolk. Your comrades. Your country. A. Games. R.E. Verso of the Wellcome Institute's impresssion signed and dated in pencil: "Abram Games 1941 81/4"

One of eight posters commissioned by H.M. War Office and noticed in the Lancet, 10 January 1942 (with reproductions of six of them), as follows: "Pictorial hygiene in the Army. The War Office, not having read our peripatetic's account of how to keep the soldier clean (Lancet, Jan. 3, p. 23), have had to devise other - and more humane - methods of keeping him up to the mark. Clear and clever posters have been designed, and will be hung where they catch the military eye and prod the military conscience. Our small reproductions of six of them do scant justice to skilful use of text and colour. There is every reason to hope that education in hygiene so ably presented will have its reward in a rising standard of health and personal pride among the men."

Not in copyright in the UK. Was formerly UK Crown copyright, but that has expired. Letter to the Wellcome Library from the Estate of Abram Games, 24 January 2001

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