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Description: | Concept: health / safety, civilian personnel, civilian effort Description: whole: the four images are positioned in the upper three-quarters. The title and text are separate and placed in the upper quarter and lower quarter, in white, held within blue insets. Further text is separate and placed in the centre left, in black. All set against a white background. image: the two upper images are a portrait of a man, in profile, sneezing without restriction, and a plate illustrating the bacteria released in his sneeze. The two lower images are a portrait of the same man, in profile again, sneezing into a handkerchief, and a plate illustrating the resultant lack of bacteria. text: THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT TO BE SNEEZED AT TOP PLATE THERE ARE 19,000 colonies of living germs on this plate which was held 3 feet away from the sneezer photographed on the right. See the cloud of germ-laden droplets broadcast into the air by a careless sneeze. LOWER PLATE ONLY ONE colony of germs got past when the sneezer used his handkerchief. COUGHS AND SNEEZES SPREAD DISEASES Use your handkerchief to trap the germs- and prevent 'droplet infection' THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH THE CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH EDUCATION PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY LOWE and BRYDONE PRINTERS LTD., LONDON, N.W.10. 51-2291. No. M.H. 21. D.C. Object: handkerchief | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Printer: Lowe and Brydone Printers Ltd, London NW10 Publisher/Sponsor: Central Council for Health Education; Ministry of Health; HMSO | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=3343... | Go to resource |
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