Healthy Man Blue

Healthy Man Scout Badge Blue Woven and Bound 1934 to 1947

The Healthy Man Badge was worn on right arm in between the shoulder and elbow.

To earn this badge a scout must do the following* 

Have a thorough knowledge of:

(1) Know the importance of keeping the heart, lungs, skin, teeth, feet and stomach, and the organs of special senses (eyes, ears and nose) in good order, and the principal dangers to be guarded against. 

(2) Give general rules governing eating, drinking. Breathing, sleeping, cleanliness and exercising; give evidence of observance of these rules for at least 12 months

 (3) Know the dangers incurred in the use of tobacco and alcohol, and the breaking of the Scout Law; the danger of over-training the body, and of the continual use of one form of exercise. 

(4.) Train a Patrol in simple exercises suitable for strengthening all parts of the body, and give reasons for each exercise.       

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