Unhygienic practices which lead to cholera. Colour lithograph by the Ukraine Military Sanitary Directorate, Sanitary Enlightenment Department of the Kiev Region, 1921.

Kiev : Izdanie Politupravleni︠︡ia Kievskogo Voennogo Okruga, 1921 (Kiev : Sov. Tip. Zak.)

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 52.3 x 71.5 cm

U.S.S.R. Proletarii vsekh stran, soediniaitesʹ! Pomni o kholere. Ne pei syroi vody. Griaznaia voda i mukhi raznosiat zagradu. Ne eshʹ syrykh fruktov i bazarnoi striapni. Bolnoi chelovek - istochnik zarazy. Bears printer's reference number: 1308/1-3000 D.V︠.T︡s U.S.S.R. in the lettering may mean Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (rather than Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Wellcome Collection 531512i

Four scenes in two registers: top left: Ne pei syroi vody (Drink thou not unboiled water), a man drinking water from a fly-infested barrel -- top right: Ne eshʹ syrykh fruktov i bazarnoi striapni (Eat thou not unwashed fruit and market grub), people selling or eating fly-infested melons -- bottom left: Griaznaia voda i mukhi raznosiat zagradu (Dirty water and flies transmit disease), a man emptying a bucket of water on food-waste covered with flies -- bottom right: Bolnoi chelovek istochnik zarazy (An ill person is a source of infection), a man discards a melon and vomits