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
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- South Vietnamese government public-health education (issuer inferred; printed codes 2534 and 8-763 (16))
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
South Vietnamese government public-health education (issuer inferred; printed codes 2534 and 8-763 (16)). National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-8-10.
Text on the object
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)
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)
