Public Health Blue

Public Health Scout Badge Blue Woven and Bound 1934 to 1947

The Public Health Badge was worn on right arm in between the shoulder and elbow.

To earn this badge a scout must do the following* 

(1) Know the modes of transmission of the following  diseases: Scarlet fever, diphtheria, tuberculosis,  measles, mumps, whooping cough, chicken-pox,  typhoid fever, dysentery, summer diarrhoea, small-  pox, malaria, ringworm, scabies; the measures adopted by sanitary authorities to prevent their spread,  and the steps which should be taken by private individuals in cases of infection.  Note -Bacteriological and medical details are not required. 

(2) Know how the importation of diseases from abroad is guarded against, with special reference to immigrants and animals  such as rats and dogs.    

(3) Describe one or more methods of disinfecting a house and a room and its contents, including bedding, after infectious  diseases, and also of eradicating the commoner insect pests,  such as bugs and flies, from infested houses and camps. 

(4) Describe the necessity, and the mode employed in his own  locality, of collecting, removing and destroying house refuse and rubbish; also the main principles of camp sanitation and  cleanliness, pointing out those things which make for unhealthy  camping.

(5) Have an elementary knowledge of the laws (general and local)  governing dairies, dairy farms, slaughter-houses and butchers  shops; the adults-ration of the more common foods, and the  use of preservatives in them. 

(6) At the age of 16, a knowledge of the dangers of the two venereal diseases.       

*The Requirements for each badge varied through issues of POR.