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Ministry of Health circular No. 11/59, viz., old persons, the handicapped and expectant
mothers as well as the relatively small number of school children referred.
A charge of four shillings per treatment, which is abateable in accordance with
means, is made.

The south of the borough is served by the Chelsea School of Chiropody which,
for many years, has provided through its students eleven sessions a week at their premises at
250 King's Road, S.W.3., and two sessions a week at the Chelsea Community Centre, 385
King's Road, S.W. 10. These sessions are not single chair sessions, but treat a considerable
number of patients resident in the borough, about a half of whom fall within the priority
classes laid down in the Ministry of Health circular No. 11/59. In addition, some chiropody
service is provided by the Council under the National Assistance Act, 1948, of which
details appear in Section 6.
In the course of the review referred to above, it became clear that there was a
need to provide additional foot clinic facilities for old people, the handicapped and expectant
mothers in the Earls Court area which is remote from the existing foot clinics and not
conveniently served by public transport.
It was decided to make arrangements with a chiropodist in private practice in
the neighbourhood to treat up to sixteen patients a week in his surgery. It was difficult,
however, to find a practitioner with a surgery in the right position willing to do so and
negotiations were still proceeding at the end of the year.
CARE OF THE UNMARRIED MOTHER AND HER CHILD

REGISTRATION Of NURSING HOMES
The Council are responsible for the registration of nursing homes within the
borough.