Scouting, Volume 23, Number 5, May 1935 Page: 8
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SOME HEALTH AND
SAFETY MERIT
BADGES AWARDED
SINCE 1911
Athletics 140,286
Personal Health ....331,324
Physical
Development .... 67,049
Public Health 264,717
Safety 117,251
Swimming 256,905
Life Saving 142,649
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THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH is a very definite part of the Scout
Program. The Boy Scouts of America from the very beginning has
recognized its obligation to promote standards of health and safety
and physical development in each member of the organization and
also to cause each boy to be aware of his individual personal responsi-
bility to make and keep himself physically fit.
The Scout Program itself helps to make boys strong and well. As
a part of his first obligation in the Scout Oath, a Scout promises to
keep himself physically strong. Instruction in first aid and health rules
are a regular part of every Troop program. The fine outdoor activities
of Scouting promote good health through exercises in the open air.
Boy Scouts have been taught that good health and happiness are
not just accidents that come to fortunate people only. As the Chief
Scout Executive said recently in BOYS' LIFE, "Health and physical
fitness involve personal responsibility. Others can tell us about them
and point out the things to do, but unless we personally and seriously
recognize that health and physical fitness are dependent upon what
we think and do, the chances are we will not make much progress."
• Nationally, the responsibilities of the Health and Safety Service
involve health conditions in Scout camps, which were splendid during
the past year; health training for Scout leaders in the development of
standards of health and safety; as well as cooperation with other
organizations doing similar work.
• Locally, Health and Safety Committees have carried on a vigor-
ous safety inspection of Troop meeting places and to an increasing
extent have been promoting regular physical check-ups for all Scouts.
Indeed, a health examination for Sea Scouts has been made part of
the Sea Scout Requirements.
• Through a monthly page in BOYS' LIFE, Dr. C. Ward Crampton,
prominent for many years in the field of physical education and pre-
ventive medicine and a member of the National Health and Safety
Committee, has been giving thousands of boys valuable advice on
health and body building problems. A monthly page for Scout Leaders
in SCOUTING, "Timely Tips on Scout Protection," is contributed by
Mr. Fred C. Mills, National Director of Health and Safety.
The Boy Scouts have demonstrated that there is a great field in America for
clean adventure, for healthful outdoor activity, and opportunities for the American
boy to render enthusiastic and patriotic service to his fellow-countrymen. Your
Organization captures and develops, rather than suppresses the natural exuber-
ance of youth. The leaders of the next generation are in the ranks of the Boy
Scouts of today.
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