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title: What to Do if National Insurance Cards or Books are Destroyed in an Air Raid
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-national-insurance-cards-air-raid-ministry-of-health-1942/
description: A text-only notice in red and brown tells workers where to ask and employers whom to apply to if their insurance cards are lost in an air raid.
section: Collection
---

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[![What to Do if National Insurance Cards or Books are Destroyed in an Air Raid, 1942 UK poster: A text-only notice in red](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-national-insurance-cards-air-raid-ministry-of-health-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-national-insurance-cards-air-raid-ministry-of-health-1942.jpg)

# What to Do if National Insurance Cards or Books are Destroyed in an Air Raid

A text-only notice in red and brown tells workers where to ask and employers whom to apply to if their insurance cards are lost in an air raid. The phrase 'destroyed in an air raid' states the bombing plainly and the poster otherwise gives instructions only.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/)

## Text on the object

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

```
WHAT TO DO IF
NATIONAL INSURANCE
CARDS OR BOOKS
ARE DESTROYED IN AN AIR RAID

WORKERS:
Ask at the Information Centre, or
ask the Insurance Inspector at the
address given below.

EMPLOYERS:
Apply to the Insurance Inspector,
Ministry of Health

Issued by the Ministry of Health
(F.940). Wt. 9950. 7,000. 4.42. Gp. 961. F. & C., Ltd.
```

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