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title: Wall News poster No. 57, malaria campaign (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wall-news-poster-57-malaria-campaign-farsi-1958/
description: A landscape Farsi wall newspaper, 'Progress of Iran' No. 57, on the malaria campaign. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
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# Wall News poster No. 57, malaria campaign (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)

A landscape Farsi wall newspaper, 'Progress of Iran' No. 57, on the malaria campaign. Photographs show a spraying demonstration before a group of health workers, a wall chalked 'DDT' with a date, the health minister at a desk, poultry-keeping and a threshing machine marked 'CASE'. Captions quote the minister and health officials on results and credit the U.S. aid programme. The tell is testimonial (quoted Iranian officials) and card-stacking: only reported successes are shown.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
پیشرفت ایران

شماره ٥٧، این نشریه هر دو هفته یکبار انتشار می‌یابد

طبق اظهار آقای دکتر مرتضی فریس مدیر کل اداره بهداشت از هفت سال پیش اداره اصل چهار در ایران شروع بفعالیت های بهداشتی نمود. در نتیجه موفقیت آنها وزارت بهداری اداره بهداشت عمومی در تهران و شهرستانها تشکیل داد که سطح بهداشت کشور را بطور شایسته ای بالا برده است.

جناب آقای دکتر راجی وزیر بهداری در یک مصاحبه مطبوعاتی گفتند: "مبارزه علیه مالاریا امسال با جدیت دنبال خواهد شد و برای مبارزه علیه پشه های مناطق جنوب که در تقابل با دوت استقامت دارند ترکیب تازه ای تهیه شده است. در نتیجه این مبارزه در بعضی نقاط کشور محصولات کشاورزی در حدود نود در صد بالا رفته است."

دفع مالاریا یکی از برنامه هایی است که مشترکا بوسیله دولت ایران و برنامه کمک امریکا با کمال موفقیت انجام شده است. و بعضی مناطق قبل از مبارزه علیه مالاریا در حدود نود در صد های مبتلا باین بیماری بودند و حال اکنون این رقم به پنج درصد تقلیل یافته است.

DDT

صدای امریکا را در این ساعات گوش کنید
از ساعت ٧ تا ١٠ بعد از ظهر
هر شب برنامه های جالب صدای امریکا را روی امواج کوتاه ١٣، ١٦، ١٩ متر و موج متوسط ٢٣٨ متر بگیرید
```

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

```
Progress of Iran

No. 57. This bulletin is published every two weeks.

According to Dr. Morteza Faris [name uncertain], director general of the health department, seven years ago the Point Four office in Iran began health activities. As a result of their success the Ministry of Health set up the public health department in Tehran and the provincial towns, which has raised the country's level of health suitably.

His Excellency Dr. Raji, Minister of Health, said in a press interview: "The fight against malaria will be pursued with seriousness this year, and a new compound has been prepared for the fight against the mosquitoes of the southern regions that resist DDT. As a result of this campaign, in some parts of the country agricultural products have risen by about ninety per cent."

Malaria control is one of the programmes carried out jointly by the Iranian government and the American aid programme with complete success. Some regions before the malaria campaign had about ninety per cent of people ill with this disease, and now this figure has been reduced to five per cent.

DDT

Listen to the Voice of America at these hours: from 7 to 10 in the evening, every night, tune to the Voice of America programmes on short waves 13, 16, 19 metres and medium wave 238 metres
```

Small cursive Persian type; some words and numerals are read with uncertainty and the translation is approximate in those places. The personal names, the ministers' titles and the percentage figures are read with uncertainty; the Voice of America box on this sheet gives 7 to 10 p.m.

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