Below are 60 propositions or statements bearing on factors that contribute to Camp Health. How many of them did you consider and carry out on your last Troop Camp? Check (as individuals) those you carried out with a plus mark (+) and those which you did not consider or carry out with a zero (0). How many plus marks do you have? How many zero marks? Write the number of each in the spaces provided on this page. Then meet by Patrols and compare your score with the rest of your Patrol members. Which statements did you all mark plus?

What could you do to make the remainder of the statements plus? How can you apply these to your next camp?

Physical Examination And Care

1. Every camper, including leaders, must be given a complete physical examination by a medical physician before entering camp, and rechecked by the "camp doctor on day of arrival. This examination should be based on the Health History form #952 supplied by the National Council.

2. It may be necessary to have cultures of the nose and throat taken in some localities. This has been, and still is being required in several Councils.

3. All Council camp food handlers are required to execute the regular medical examination form 952A and food handler's permit in states where required.

4. Every group leader should report on the health of every Scout in his Patrol or Troop each morning, and hospital or doctor's call should be on the program for each morning. Leaders should be held responsible for an immediate report on any boy that is ill.

5. In case of illness, call in the nearest doctor, if you do not have one at camp. If Scout is quite ill, notify parents and plan to remove him to hospital or home. In the meantime, isolate. If there is the slightest reason to believe the illness is infectious or contagious, notify Local Health officer before removing patient from camp.

Water

Available water supply for all uses should be 30 gallons per camper, per day. But where flush toilets and showers are used 50 gallons per camper per day.

6. Drinking water analyzed and approved by State, City or County Board of Health, according to the U.S. Treasury Department standard*. If the water does not meet the standard, then it must be chemically treated to insure its purity*. (*See Military Prevention Medicine - Dunham, Page 302)

7. Provide at least one quart of water per camper per day for drinking, and encourage its consumption. Place a cup of water at each camper's mess place at each meal, to be drunk before other beverages are taken.

8. Make available drinking water at each Troop unit. If running water is not available, then supply covered water containers with bubblers or spigots and sanitary paper cups.

9. Be absolutely positive that common drinking cups are not used. Provide bubblers or paper drinking cups. Do not depend on boys carrying their own cups. Have containers thoroughly cleansed each day.

10. Swimming water. Have analyzed and approved by health authorities. If you are using a swimming pool, be sure that you comply with the State law on water turnover and amount per bather.

11. Washing Water. Provide adequate water for a thorough cleansing of hands and face three times per day, and for hands alone as often as Scout uses the latrine. While soap must be part of every boy's toilet equipment, it is well to provide at wash places some sort of soap flakes or powder, in case he does not bring his own soap with him.

12. Be positive that wash water is provided at each latrine for washing Immediately after elimination. If running water is not available, then place tanks or kegs, equipped with spigots, just inside latrine door, keep filled constantly, and add soap flakes or soap powder to water to insure their use. No towels necessary. Drain from these tanks may be used to flush the urinal, and run into a separate pit if pit latrines are in use.

13. Washing Water. Do away with wash basins. Install a perforated pipe leading from a barrel or keg. Simple spigots on barrels are O.K.

14. Provide the opportunity for a hot soap shower bath for each camper twice a week. Insist on at least one such bath for every person in camp at least once each week. If the Scouts are not swimming, they should have a soap shower three times each week. Avoid soap baths at the swimming place.

15. Provide opportunity for Scouts to wash clothing when necessary. Hot water, of course, is necessary.

16. Dish water. Every dish should be thoroughly scraped and cleaned of food before it is placed in the dish water.

17. Dishes must be washed in soapy water at a temperature as high as the hands of the washer can endure, if they are washed by hand.

18. Dishes should be rinsed by submersion for at least one minute in water at a temperature of at least 180o Fahrenheit. When the water boils (2120) you can be sure.

19. Allow dishes to dry from their own heat, or by heat from the fire. Do not use towels.

20. Kettles in which dishwashing is done must be washed and disinfected in the same manner as all dishes.

Waste Water Disposal

21. Check carefully on your waste water disposal systems, and be sure they are working and are not contaminating water or soil.

22. Do not permit any water except drinking water to be thrown on top of the ground, and then only if soil is sandy.

23. Use only pasteurized milk or evaporated milk and secure from Health Department approved handler's Certificates.

24. Insist that your milk reach you at a temperature not higher than 50° (better 40° to U5° ) and keep it at that temperature until it is used.

25. Provide one quart of milk each day for every camper, for all uses. One pint at least per camper should be of fresh sweet milk to drink; the remainder may be evaporated or powdered, if necessary.

Fly, Insect, And Pest Control

26. There is little excuse for flies in the camp kitchen, when it is carefully screened and when proper precautions are taken to eliminate conditions which breed and feed flies. If all garbage cans and other food and waste containers are placed in G.I. cans with tight lids and on a raised cement platform which can be washed - if cans are burned, crushed and buried - if care is taken to properly dispose of waste water - if fly traps are used near the ceiling, along with fly sprays -and if the kitchen and its surroundings are generally clean, then flies and other insects will be objects of curiosity. Almost invariably a camp breeds its own flies.

27. If mosquitoes are prevalent, drain and oil breeding places, cut out underbrush in wet places, screen cabins, provide mosquito tents, and provide mosquito killing sprays.

28. Rats and other rodents should be eliminated by use of traps and other destructive agents such as fumigation, etc.* (See Military Preventive Medicine - Dunham, Page 723-785) A good dog may be necessary, although it is generally well to keep dogs, cats, and other pets away from camp.