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title: 'Health Poster #4 (Latrine): Clean and Safe Latrine (Burmese poster distributed in Burma)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/health-poster-4-latrine-burmese-1952/
description: A health-education poster on a dark blue ground in the style of an engineering blueprint. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# Health Poster #4 (Latrine): Clean and Safe Latrine (Burmese poster distributed in Burma)

A health-education poster on a dark blue ground in the style of an engineering blueprint. Front, side, plan and cross-section drawings give the dimensions of a pit latrine, and a shaded drawing at right shows the finished wooden latrine with its roof and door. A Burmese headline names a clean, safe latrine. The poster makes no argument beyond instruction. The tell, such as it is, is transfer: the technical drawing format lends the advice an air of engineering authority.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
သန့်ရှင်း၍အန္တရာယ်ကင်းသော
အိမ်သာ

[dimension labels in feet and inches]
[logo text, lower right: illegible]
[handwritten, right margin:] Burmese
[signature:] Henry
```

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

```
Headline, approximately: 'A clean and safe latrine'.
```

Burmese headline read approximately; the logo text is not legible.

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