Inscription Concerning Public Health Work
(December 8, 1952)

Source: RMRB (Jan, 4, 1952), |, Available English Translations: SC
(suppl), 22 (Apr. 8, 1968), 6; CR, 21:11 (Nov, 1972), 7 (excerpt).

According to the accompanying news item, this inscription was written by Mao for
Second National Health Conference.

Mobilize,

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7 OCTOBER — DECEMBER 1952 / 305

Pay attention to hygiene,

Cut down on disease,

Raise the standard of health,

Smash the enemy”s germ warfare.'
Mao Zedong

Note
| jy February and March 1952, the Chinese government accused the American forces in the
Kanes Wal of waging germ warfare by dropping bombs containing viral infected buys and other
and bombs containing viral and bacterial culture, first on territories in Korea and then,
ate February onward, also on Qingdac and other parts of northeastern China. See RMSC

(1982), pp 27