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A poster with drawn images of people and text in blue rectangles, red banner with title on top

Poster with a main image, smaller line drawing in a circle, and text below.

Poster with a main image, smaller line drawings in circles, and text below.

Cartoon-like drawing with yellow and white text on red background.

Poster with a main image of a woman walking through a field and text below.

Poster with a main image of a boy on the left, two horizontal panels of rectangular images, and text.

Poster with a main image in the center of a man with diseased lungs, smaller images on the right and left borders show ways to prevent TB, and text below.

Poster with a purple background and a main image of a man standing and a female health worker holding up a screen on his chest to take an x-ray, text below.

Poster with a main image and text below.

Poster with a main image on top, text in the middle on a brown banner, and two small line drawings in circles

Poster with a main image, two line drawings in circles, and text below

Poster with image of a man stretching and others stretching behind him, title and text to the left.

Poster with image of a man taking of his uniform in a bedroom, window shows the night sky, title and text to the right.

Poster with a main image, title, and text.

Poster with a main image of a man getting a full body x-ray, title, and text.

Poster with a cityscape featuring Tiananmen, a farm, factories, and a Chinese flag on each side of a red star in the sky, text in the middle.

Poster with a red background, text below, and an image of a female nurse holding out one hand to show the construction site in the background. A smaller picture in the middle shows a male doctor examining a worker and a peasant.

Poster with a yellow background, image on top, text on the bottom

Poster with a green background, image on top, text on the bottom

Poster with a red background, image on top, text on the bottom

Poster with a brown background, image on top, text on the bottom

Poster with a dark green background, image on top, text on the bottom

Poster with a blue background, image on top, text on the bottom

Poster with a dark blue background, image on top, text on the bottom

Poster with a dark background, image on top, text on the bottom

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結核桿菌傳染的途徑有兩種: 呼吸道傳染 (Channel 1 of spreading tuberculosis: through the respiratory system), 1953

結核桿菌傳染的途徑有兩種: 呼吸道傳染 (Channel 1 of spreading tuberculosis: through the respiratory system), Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association, 1953

In 1953, the Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association produced a large series of anti-TB posters. This poster consists of a group of small images showing how tuberculosis could be transmitted when people are talking, sneezing, coughing, kissing, sleeping together, and during feeding.

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In 1953 the Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association produced a large series of anti-TB posters that sought to educate the public on the causes, symptoms, treatments, and methods of preventing the spread of TB.

我們偉大的祖國, 在中國共產党, 中央人民政府和毛主席的領導下, 在總路線的燈塔照耀下, 已開始實行第一個五年計劃… (The first Five-Year Plan stated…), 1954

保護和增進人民健康, 必須根據衛生工作的四大原則… (Protect people's health according to the four principles…), 1954

造成肺結核病的主要原因是由於傳染了結核桿菌和人體抵抗力的減弱… (Cause of tuberculosis -- the tubercle bacillus), 1953

消化道傳染 (Channel 2 of spreading tuberculosis: through the digestive system), 1953

結核病人的痰中含有結核桿菌, 將痰吐在地上, 乾燥後隨塵埃飛揚空中, 傳染他人 (When phlegm dries, it spreads with dust, and the tubercle bacilli infect people), 1953

團體防癆, 首先要改善工作人員的生活和工作條件, 並注意衛生教育, 環境衛生和體格鍛鍊, 普遍的肺部檢查… (Improve working and living conditions, and isolate patients), 1953

早期發現, 早期治療"的目… (Early discovery, early treatment), 1953

初起的肺結核病人, 大都沒有顯著症狀; 如果病情慢慢加重, 病人就漸漸感覺到不舒服了. 起先可能只覺得疲倦, 胃口不好, 或有咳嗽多痰, 後來可能有發熱, 咯血等症狀發生 (At first, the patient does not feel anything wrong, but when he becomes seriously ill, he will have fever and cough with phlegm and blood), 1953

每一個肺結核病人, 必須經過一醫師詳細檢查確定病變的類型和發展階段然後決定治療方針 (Every patient must be examined by doctors before any treatment), 1953

患肺結核病的人, 要有革命的樂觀主義精神, 對健康的恢復要有信心… (Patients must have confidence and patience in getting cured), 1953

患者住在團體自辦療養室裡, 由防癆機構的醫師定期來診治或指導… (Doctors come to the sanatorium to check on patients), 1953

肺結核病的基本治療, 是要有適當的休息, 營養, 陽光, 和新鮮空氣 (Basic treatment of TB is good rest, nutrition, sunshine, and fresh air), 1953