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Notwithstanding an increase in the number (11 per week) of
sessions and in the number of patients booked per session in an
attempt to reduce the waiting list, the list continues to increase,
and the waiting period for new cases and return visits varies between
seven and ten weeks throughout the year.
Advantage was taken of accommodation at Dawlish Road
Health Centre to use it as an extra Foot Clinic. The Clinic opened
in January for four weekly sessions, two in the afternoons and two
in the evenings. This was extended in April to six sessions, the
afternoon sessions being increased to four.
It is interesting to note that at Dawlish Road Clinic the free
cases numbered 48 (or 17.9 per cent.) as against 28 (or 2.2 per cent.)
at the main Clinic, illustrating the advantage taken by the old people
in that area of the facility afforded them.
A further innovation was the transport of infirm patients to
and from the Clinics. Eleven patients have been able to receive
treatment who otherwise would not have been able to attend.
Defects Treated.
Bursitis 100
Callosities 486
Corns 390
Hallux valgus 139
Hallux rigidus 23
Hammer toe 35
Hyperidrosis 27
Hyperkeratosis 3
Metatarsalgia 44
Mycotic infection 14
Nails, ingrowing 102
Nails, club 119
Pes planus 48
Rheumatic heel 2
Septic condition 14
Sprain 2
Trigger toe 2
Verruca pedis 112