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Answer:—A paediatrician is a man who, from a medical standpoint, tries to
help people in bringing their children up healthy. He may be said to be a
children's specialist but we do not want this to be true if it means that the
paediatrician of the future is going to be linked to the children's specialist of the
past, because the children's specialist of the past was far more interested in st udying
the diseases of children and curing them than in helping to train parents to bring
their children up healthy.
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CHIROPODY.
Question:—Why does my child develop corns and why do some
children have plantar warts ?
Answer:—Plantar warts definitely are an infection. Fortunately we do not
get a large number of these; fortunately, also, they can be dealt with quite simply.
What is definitely indicated is that your child has walked somewhere in bare
feet where someone who has plantar warts has already walked; alternatively, he or
she has worn a pair of socks worn by a child with plantar warts. What we can do
to prevent the spread of plantar warts is to detect them immediately and to treat them
immediately, also—of course—to obviate the necessity of children wearing one
another's shoes, etc.
With regard to corns they are an equally simple matter. A corn develops in
response to intermittent pressure. A corn becomes painful when it begins to
press upon something, and children's feet are so soft in structure that pain by
pressure usually only occurs after the corn has developed to a relatively considerable
size.

Although I am writing this report for the year 1947, and the remarks I wish to
make have particular regard to 1948, I would like to take time by the forelock and
say how disappointed I am that all children's shoes have now become free from
coupons. I do wish it could have been possible for approved shoes only to have been
made coupon free.
PAEDIATRIC SERVICE.
Question:—What is a paediatrician ?
Chiropody
(a) Number of Patients
404
(b) Number of Treatments
1.525