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THE HEALTH OF BARKING
Comfortable feet make happy families.
Chiropody Clinic.
This service was started in 1938 for the treatment of those minor foot ailments
which are so crippling and painful.
The wearing of tight shoes and shrunken socks can produce shocking deformities.
As a matter of fact these deformities are shocking in every sense of the word ; they
not only shock the person who examines the feet but they are a shock to the patient
every time he or she puts them on the ground.
The trouble is that our boot and shoe manufacturers find themselves constrained
to pander to the vanity of people, not all of whom, by any means, are
women, and I should suppose they are faced, on the one hand, with selling people
shoes that are quite unsuitable, or alternatively going out of business. Is it too much
to hope th it by arranging for properly fitted shoes to be coupon free, and those chosen
tor purpos es of vanity taking more coupons than at present, people may in the end be
brought 11 wear properly fitting shoes ?
The sack too is as important as the shoe. Socks and stockings require to be
Made right and left, just as it is necessary to produce boots right and left.
Just as elsewhere I have said that no child in any classroom should be put to sit
in a place where you would not put a plant and in this simple way have applied a
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