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work at the clinics. This very helpful arrangement has averted the
great danger of being deprived of his most valuable services.
In the Clinics one of the major struggles is that against
over-eating, now the most common cause of leg-deformities. A limited
success has been scored in that operations for knock-knees, quite
common ten years ago, have now become a rarity. An equally difficult
struggle is that for suitable footwear. The twin enemies are
cheap mass-production and fashion. An increasing number of children
are brought up because they wear their shoes out within a few weeks.
Here the fault lies clearly not with the feet, but with the stuff the
shoes are made of, which will not last the six months required for a
child's shoe. Others come with trouble in various places of the foot
and toes due to pressure or friction by the shoe, which cannot be
eliminated as long as fashion prohibits pressure to be applied in
more suitable places. In both these cases it is advice and instruction,
rather than treatment, that is required from the Clinic."