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The majority of treatments provided at the clinics were for superficial excrescences
(corns, callosities, etc.), and malformed nails. Advice was given on shoe fitting, foot
hygiene and exercises.

The Council maintains a recuperative holiday home at Littlehampton, Sussex, for
36 boys and girls from 3 to 8 years of age. For some years older children have been
sent under annual contract to a small private hotel at Deal, Kent, and to a home at
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, maintained by the Women's Voluntary Services for children
nominated by the Council. Children who could not be accommodated in these three
homes, and all adults, have Been placed in homes under private ownership or maintained
by voluntary organisations.
In October, 1958, the Council opened a children's recuperative holiday home in
premises at Bognor Regis, leased on generous terms by the trustees of the Surrey Convalescent
Homes. Cambridge House, as it is called, was designed as a children's
convalescent home and accommodates 44 children from 8 to 15 years old. The opportunity
to have a home suitable for use all the year round and within easy reach of
London in an ideal situation was greatly welcomed, even though it meant severing the
connection with the W.V.S. at Aldeburgh besides terminating the use of the hotel at
Deal. Tribute is due to the W.V.S. for the services provided over a long period which
included escorting children between Aldeburgh and London.
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