Scouting, Volume 23, Number 6, June 1935 Page: 10
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Revisions in Rank and Merit
Badge Requirements
Exception in Tenderfoot Requirements for Handicapped Scouts
Upon recommendation of the Com-
mittee on Badges, Awards and Scout
Requirements the Executive Board has
adopted the following revisions of and
additions to Scout Requirements,
Badges, Insignia and Uniforms—the
revisions in Second Class and First
Class First Aid requirements and in
the Photography and First Aid Merit
Badges to become effective January 1,
1936.
Athletics
The following classification has been
added to Athletics Requirement No.
5 to take care of Scouts weighing 75
lbs. or less—
Run. bd. jump 10 ft. 2 in.
Run. high jump 3 ft. 2 in.
Stand, bd. jump 5 ft. 10 in.
St. high jump 2 ft. 6 in.
50-yard dash 7 sec.
100-yard dash
6-potato race 36 sec.
20-yard swim 19 3-5 sec.
40-yard swim 47 sec.
Pull-up 3 times
8-lb. shot-put 15 ft.
Push up from
floor 7 times
Rope climb 18 ft 29 sec.
Baseball throw
for accuracy 42 ft.
Baseball throw
for distance 120 ft.
Basketball goal
shooting (30
seconds) 5 in 8
FIRST AID
First Aid requirements for Second
Class and for First Class Rank and
for the First Aid Merit Badge have
been adopted to read as follows:—
Second Class
(a) Show what to do, including
proper dressing and binder where nec-
essary, for—
(1) cut on finger; (2) knee deep-
ly scraped and bleeding; (3) cut
on forearm; (4) black eye; (5)
bleeding nose; (6) blister on heel;
(7) fainting; (8) blow in solar
plexus, apparent death from in-
haling gas, drowning or electric
shock; and (9) severe scald from
hot liquid or steam.
(b) Tell what should and what
should not be done for—
(1) pimple on face; (2) earache;
(3) splinter under finger nail;
(4) cinder in eye; (5) sunburn;
and (6) shock.
(c) Tell danger of taking a physic
for pain or soreness in region of stom-
ach without first consulting a physician.
First Class
(a) Tell what First Aid is and
what are its limitations.
(b) Review Second Class First Aid
requirements including demonstrations.
(c) Show what to do for—
(1) frost-bitten foot; (2) snake
bite on hand; (3) mad dog bite;
(4) heat exhaustion and sun-
stroke, describing difference in
appearance.
(d) Tell what to do for—
(1) internal poisoning from food
or drug; (2) freezing; (3) poi-
soning caused by poison ivy, poison
sumac or poison oak.
(e) Show how to—
(1) use triangular bandage as
sling, and as directed for four of
the following injuries—head, eye,
hand, chest, hip, knee, foot (in
each case with dressing over
wound) ; (2) apply splint to bro-
ken upper arm and place properly
in cravat sling; (3) immobilize
broken collar bone; (4) use neck-
erchief over shoe to support
sprained ankle; (5) apply finger
pressure (digital) to control ar-
terial bleeding of wrist, ankle and
temple; (6) apply tourniquet on
upper arm and upper leg at cor-
rect pressure points, and (7) con-
trol venous bleeding below knee.
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(f) Explain necessity for immedi-
ate use of finger pressure control of
bleeding; its advantages over tourni-
quet, and danger and necessary precau-
tions in use of tourniquet.
(g) Demonstrate with another
person (1) four-hand carry and (2)
blanket or coat-litter carry; (3) a two-
man carry with a chair; (4) with three
other persons, method of lifting and
transporting through a door and
through a narrow passage a man who
is unconscious, the Scout himself acting
as captain of the team; (5) Fireman's
drag.
(h) Describe symptoms of various
degrees of shock, when to expect and
how to deal with them.
FIRST AID MERIT BADGE
1. Review Second and First Class
First Aid Requirements including
demonstrations.
2. Show correct way to—
(a) prepare for transporting a per-
son with a compound fracture of the
forearm; (b) make and apply splint
for broken thigh.
3. Show how to—
(a) stop bleeding from a ruptured
varicose vein in leg, (b) control ar-
terial bleeding on wrist and calf of leg
simultaneously.
4. Explain what to do in the case of
a man grasping, or otherwise in contact
with an electric wire, or lying across
the power rail of an electric railway.
5. Tell briefly what to do for a man
found in a starving condition.
6. Show what to do in the case of a
person who chokes from drawing water
or food into his windpipe while eating.
7. Demonstrate with a small piece of
cloth how he would sterilize and make
safe a part of his shirt if he had to use
it for an improvised dressing.
8. Tell what fatal disease germ is
likely to be carried into a wound from
a gun shot, knife thrust, rusty nail,
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