Schistosomiasis: how it is transmitted and prevented. Colour lithographs, 1963.

Date:
1963-8
Reference:
674931i
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Schistosomiasis: how it is transmitted and prevented. Colour lithographs, 1963. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A set of four Chinese posters from a health education campaign undertaken in the early 1960s which sought to reduce the incidence of schistosomiasis among the rural populace. Each poster comprises three colour illustrations in roundels, together with descriptive text in Chinese

Publication/Creation

Tianjin : [publisher not identified]?], 1963-8.

Physical description

4 prints : printed in colours ; sheets 77.2 x 27 cm

Lettering

Zuohao fanghu gongzuo yufang xuexichong bing. ... Sheet headings in Chinese with transliterations in western script. Imprint details on sheet no. 4

Edition

33,000 [print run].

Contents

No. 1: Bimian jiechu you weiyou de shui (Avoid contact with infested water): people near the water's edge, when harvesting, meeting ferry, or wanting to bathe
No. 2: Yinyong meiyou weiyou de shui (Drink uncontaminated water): people taking water from the well and from a pond, and (with a filter) from the lake
No. 3: Ba shui li de weiyou xiaomie diao (Sterilize water used in affected areas): adding chemicals to drinking water, scattering powder on a stream, spraying waterside vegetation
No. 4: Bu rang weiyou dao rentiliqu (Do not allow the schistosomiasis fluke to enter the body): boys examining their ankles, girls protecting their legs with bandages and impermeable boots, a boy bandaging his ankles

References note

Miriam Gross, Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China, Oakland, California: University of California Press, [2016] (on the campaign against schistosomiasis)
Xun Zhou, 'Mao's China falsely claimed it had eradicated schistosomiasis – and it's still celebrating that 'success' in propaganda today' The conversation, 22 August 2020 (on the campaign against schistosomiasis)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 674931i

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  • Set of four prints

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  • No. 4

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