--- title: Spread of Diseases url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/spread-of-diseases-by-faeces-1965-1969/ description: 'A health-education sheet headed ''Diseases caused by faeces: how disease is spread'' shows two numbered panels. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Spread of Diseases [![Spread of Diseases, 1965 US poster: A health-education sheet headed 'Diseases caused by faeces](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/spread-of-diseases-by-faeces-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/spread-of-diseases-by-faeces-1965-1969.jpg) # Spread of Diseases A health-education sheet headed 'Diseases caused by faeces: how disease is spread' shows two numbered panels. Panel 3, 'not keeping personal and public hygiene', pairs a child eating with dirty hands with a fly-covered rubbish heap; panel 4, 'using infected utensils', shows bowls, chopsticks, bottles and a teapot. The tell is the pairing of everyday habits with images of contamination, with no named figure or statistic. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CÁC BỆNH DO PHÂN CÁCH TRUYỀN BỆNH 3 KHÔNG GIỮ VỆ SINH CÁ NHÂN VÀ CÔNG CỘNG: TAY BẨN ĐƯA ĐỒ ĂN LÊN MIỆNG ĐỔ RÁC BỪA BÃI 4 DÙNG ĐỒ ĂN VÀ BÁT CHÉN NHIỄM TRÙNG: SP-1001 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` DISEASES FROM FAECES HOW DISEASE IS SPREAD 3 NOT KEEPING PERSONAL AND PUBLIC HYGIENE: DIRTY HANDS PUT FOOD INTO THE MOUTH DUMPING RUBBISH CARELESSLY 4 USING INFECTED FOOD AND DISHES: SP-1001 ``` [← The Spirit of Youth in Long An](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/spirit-of-youth-long-an-1965-1969/) [Các bệnh do phân (The Spread of Diseases) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/spread-of-diseases-feces-borne-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered. - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)