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title: 'Chitra Katha photo poster No. 34: Worldwide campaign to destroy mosquitoes (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-34-worldwide-mosquito-campaign-bengali-dacca-1958/
description: A Bengali photo sheet on the worldwide malaria eradication campaign. Photographs show spraying and drainage in East Pakistan.
section: Collection
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# Chitra Katha photo poster No. 34: Worldwide campaign to destroy mosquitoes (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)

A Bengali photo sheet on the worldwide malaria eradication campaign. Photographs show spraying and drainage in East Pakistan, a classroom lesson in North Africa, blood-slide testing in Cameroon and Colombia, a drawing from a Walt Disney cartoon, and a Thai temple spraying with a priest's quoted remark on science and religion. Captions say the U.S. gave 37 million dollars in 1957 and 63 countries take part. The tell is card-stacking: successes and U.S. funding are shown, with no failures.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

Original (Bengali) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
চিত্র কথা

বিশ্বব্যাপী মশক ধ্বংসের অভিযান

Issue No. 34 Published weekly for U.S.I.S, Dacca by Jatiya Mudran
Editor's Note:- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Chitra Katha (Picture Story)

The worldwide campaign of mosquito destruction

[English imprint lines as printed.]
```

Masthead, headline and imprint transcribed; the Bengali body captions beneath the photographs are not transcribed in full.

[← Manila Host to SEATO poster No. 6: 1954 and 1958 (English, Manila)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/manila-host-to-seato-poster-6-1954-1958-manila-1958/) [Chitra Katha photo poster No. 35: Miss Naila Ahmed of Pakistan at the New York Herald Tribune Forum (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-35-naila-ahmed-herald-tribune-forum-bengali-dacca-1958/)

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