Enormous flies landing on lavatories and dustbins and then onto food. At the bottom on the psoter is a sick woman with an anxious doctor. Text above image sayed "Flies eat nightsoil and refuse and then eat rice. People who eat that rice will become sick and die" (蝇食糞及垃圾便食饭。人食其飯便病 一 死!) Handwritten inscription on poster by John S. Willis, in Hong Kong, April 1947. Willis has translated the Chinese into English
Author / Creator | Unknown |
Format | 1 poster : color ; 60 x 45 cm |
Publisher | 衛生局 |
Year | 1947? |
Language | Chinese |
HKBU Library collection | Propaganda Art Collection |
Work type | Poster |
Subject(s) | Public health |
Keyword(s) | Health education |
Permalink | https://bcc.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/artcollection/k27-235 |
Library record | View the record in HKBU library catalogue |
Copyright status | Copyrighted CC BY-NC 4.0 |
Cite this image as: "蝇令你生病 : 霍乱. 腸熱. .痢症", in Hong Kong Baptist University Library Art Collections, accessed 06/10/2424, https://bcc.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/artcollection/k27-235.