The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
'Coughs and sneezes spread diseases' was an Australian Second World War campaign aimed at stopping the spread of diseases and other ailments, such as the common cold. This poster was one of a series produced to achieve this aim. The United Kingdom and New Zealand also had similar campaigns using the same phraseology. The slogan 'coughs and sneezes spread diseases' originates from the United States around 1918 during the peak of the Spanish flu. The phrase has been used periodically since the Second World War by different health organisations including the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) and the World Health Organization (WHO), including the more recent 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu and the 2020 COVID-19 Corona Virus pandemics.
The centre of the poster has two black and white images of a man sneezing. The upper image depicts the sneeze without using a handkerchief the bottom depicts the sneeze with. Positioned to the left of these images is scientific information about the number of germs spread by the sneezer in each case. The images are film stills attributed to the Army Cine Section.
'Coughs and sneezes spread diseases' was an Second World War campaign aimed at stopping the spread of diseases and other ailments, such as the common cold. This poster was one of a series produced to
'Coughs and sneezes spread diseases' was a Second World War campaign aimed at stopping the spread of diseases and other ailments, such as the common cold. This poster was one of a series produced to a
'Coughs and sneezes spread diseases' was a Second World War campaign aimed at stopping the spread of diseases and other ailments, such as the common cold. This poster was one of a series produced to a
'Coughs and sneezes spread diseases' was an Australian Second World War campaign aimed at stopping the spread of diseases and other ailments, such as the common cold. This poster was one of a series p
An Australian Second World War cautionary poster that echoes the British 'coughs and sneezes spread diseases' campaign. The title text frames the poster at the top and bottom. The centre of the poste
Second World War poster, produced by the British Ministry for Health and Central Council for Health Education, depicting a man sneezing without a handkerchief. The poster was intended to prevent the s