I continue to feature philatelic materials issued for the WHO Campaign on Malaria Eradication in 1962. Last week's focus was largely on countries issuing stamps before the WHO campaign as well as the UN and USA. Readers may have noted that Canada was not included. That is because, to my own surprise, Canada was among the 16 countries that chose to issue "special cancellations" for the event.The others included: Austria, British Guiana, British Solomon Islands, Burma, Denmark, East African Postal Union (Kenya, Tanzania,Uganda) Rhodesia/Nyasaland, French Polynesia, Malta, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom and Zanzibar. This week it is mostly South American countries.
Here we have an attractive First Day Cover from Argentina issued from Coroba on 14 April 1962. It was mailed to an address in Houston, Texas. The stamp shows the WHO logo with a mosquito next to it.The post mark is an unusual shape, five-sided with the UN Emblem in the middle.The cachet shows the WHO logo, a large mosquito vector, and a man looking into a microscope.
From Brazil we have this cover with the stamp issued for the WHO Campaign.It has the complete WHO logo This was a regular commercial envelope from a Brazilian import/export company in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sur province, air mailed to New York .It was registered mail , hence the additional stamp to meet the postage requirements.
This two stamp set from Colombia was issued for the WHO Campaign in 1962. The two stamps have the same design, with the WHO logo over a mosquito in a swamp.The right hand stamp was for air mail.
This stamp was issued by the Dominican Republic for the WHO Malaria Campaign . It has a small WHO logo on top of what looks like a white beam aimed at a mosquito .The stamp is a semi-postal one and has a surcharge of 2 centimos which was for the national campaign against malaria.The post mark is a very heavy one which detracts from the viewing of the stamp.
Here we have three stamps issued by the Republic of Paraguay for the WHO Campaign. The first two are similar in design with the WHO logo slightly changed so that the globe with serpent is side by side with the mosquito.. The third stamp shows a microscope with the view of mosquito eggs. It was issued for World Health Day on 7 April 1962.
From Jamaica we have a regular postal envelope addressed to Chicago, USA. This was not issued for the WHO Campaign in 1962, but for WHO's 20th anniversary in 1968. The design shows a man spraying insecticide, with the inscription, "Malaria Eradication".It was post marked August 1969.
Here we have a First Day Cover issued from the Canal Zone in Panama with an interesting story line. The 10 mile strip cutting through Panama was leased by the United States to build the Canal linking the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. A major impediment to this herculean effort was the mosquito infested area which afflicted thousands of workers with yellow fever and malaria. It became clear that for the project to succeed the vector had to be controlled. In his famous quote Maj. Gen. Gorgas, directing the project, was reported to have said, "The Panama Canal was dug with the microscope". The 7 cent stamp shows the WHO logo, again in a horizontal position . The cachet shows a human and a mosquito with the WHO logo. It was post marked from Balboa, on September 24 1962.
Since it is the only one I have from Oceania I am slipping in here the stamp issued by Papua and New Guinea to commemorate the WHO 1962 Malaria Campaign.The stamp is very simple and shows the standard WHO logo as was developed for the campaign.
My last item this week is this stamp from Venezuela issued for the WHO Campaign. It is an air mail stamp and has a more elaborated design using the standard WHO logo. Here the globe with serpent is embossed in white, and below it is the map of Venezuela on which lies a mosquito.The inscription in Spanish reads : The World United Against Malaria", with another circular inscription below that reads, " Third World Countries with Major Territories Free of Malaria".
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