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With the available staff of Chiropodists the time between successive
appointments has never been less than seven weeks, and has occasionally
been much longer.
The Foot Clinic facilities are available to all, the only priority being
that given to children referred from School Clinics. Under the circumstances

These figures show that in Leyton the Foot Clinic facilities are in
greatest demand by persons from 65 to 70 years of age, the 70 to 75 age group
being a close runner-up.
Foot trouble is one of the most crippling disabilities of old people,
a large proportion of whom can be converted from bed-ridden patients to
ambulant members of the community by skilled attention to the feet. A
prolonged confinement to bed is recognised as a major disaster, especially
in old people, and it should be unnecessary to stress the beneficent value of
chiropody in a community in which the proportion of old people is increasing
at such a rate. In addition to its humanitarian aspect, the economic value
of expert foot treatment is becoming increasingly appreciated, especially in
connection with the freeing of beds in geriatric hospitals.