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title: Muốn giữ gìn sức khoẻ phải rửa sạch (In Order to Maintain Health You Should Wash These Thoroughly)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/to-keep-health-wash-thoroughly-1965/
description: 'A colour poster places the words ''To keep your health, wash these thoroughly'' in a central oval, with arrows to eight panels: food utensils, teeth.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Muốn giữ gìn sức khoẻ phải rửa sạch, 1965 US poster: A colour poster places the words 'To keep your health, wash these](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/to-keep-health-wash-thoroughly-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/to-keep-health-wash-thoroughly-1965.jpg)

# Muốn giữ gìn sức khoẻ phải rửa sạch (In Order to Maintain Health You Should Wash These Thoroughly)

A colour poster places the words 'To keep your health, wash these thoroughly' in a central oval, with arrows to eight panels: food utensils, teeth, the house, the hands, vegetables, cooking stoves and utensils, clothes, and the body. The panels show ordinary people brushing teeth, scrubbing a floor, washing hands, washing laundry and bathing. The sheet is practical hygiene instruction with no political message; its persuasive device is the everyday household scene.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Muốn giữ gìn SỨC KHOẺ phải rửa sạch

VẬT DÙNG THỨC ĂN
HÀM RĂNG
NHÀ CỬA
HAI BÀN TAY
THÂN THỂ CỦA BẠN
ÁO QUẦN
BẾP NÚT & DỤNG CỤ NẤU NƯỚNG
RAU CẢI

2534
8-763 (16)
```

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

```
To keep your HEALTH, you must wash thoroughly

FOOD UTENSILS
TEETH
THE HOUSE
BOTH HANDS
YOUR BODY
CLOTHES
STOVES & COOKING UTENSILS
VEGETABLES

2534
8-763 (16)
```

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