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Fig. 1: PubHea-C5-Front

Cloth: Lightweight tan right twill
Embroidery: Cotton lock stitch

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Fig. 2: PubHea-C5-Reverse

Back: Plain NO imprint with starch

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Fig. 3: PubHea-C5-mve1-front

Cloth: Lightweight tan right twill
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Fig. 4: PubHea-C5-mve1-reverse

Minor variation: Black lock stitch plain with starch back

Item Name: Public Health 1939 - 1943

Item ID: PubHea-C5

Collector Rating: 1

Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge

Requirements Requirements March 1931 until June 1948

1. State the chief causes and modes of transmission of each of the following diseases: Tuberculosis, typhoid fever, diphtheria, malaria, hookworm disease.

2. Draw a diagram showing how the house-fly carries disease.

3. State the precautions which should be taken to prevent the spread of contagious disease during the sickness of the patient and following his removal or recovery.

4. Describe good methods by which a community may dispose of garbage and sewage, and may obtain a safe water supply, and tell what methods are used in his own community or on his own premises.

5. State the precautions which must be taken in producing and handling milk to make it as safe as possible from a health standpoint, and tell what the local laws require in this respect, and the extent to which they are enforced.

6. Tell how to plan and manage a small camp in a sanitary way.

7. State the reasons why school children should undergo a medical examination.

8. Tell how he may cooperate with the health authorities in preventing disease.

9. Describe different ways in which a person may become immune to infectious diseases.

10. Produce satisfactory evidence that he has rendered service in some effort recommended by the public health authorities in the interest of public health.

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