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Requirements March 1936 until December 1942

1. Review Second and First Class First Air Requirements, including demonstrations.

2. Show correct way to: (a) prepare for transporting a person 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 arterial 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, pitchfork or garden rake, or from a powder burn; why the patient in every case must be taken to the doctor for a supplementary treatment.

9. Tell the dangers involved in the immediate transportation of an injured person where the extent of the injury is not known.

10. Explain what he would do if a companion dived into shallow water, and struck his head, staggered ashore and fell unconscious.

11. Show treatment for extreme shock, using cover, correct position and heating devices.