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PREVENTION OF ILLNESS, CARE AND AFTER CARE
(Section 28)
Recuperative Holidays
The Area Health Staff continued to be responsible for dealing with applications
for recuperative holidays and during 1963 151 applications were received compared with
170 the previous year. Of these, 98 were approved.
Chiropody Service
At the beginning of the year two chiropodists were employed on a sessional basis
for a total of eight sessions a week. Early in 1963 two more chiropodists were
appointed for an additional three (sometimes four) sessions a week, and in December
another chiropodist was appointed for a further one session a week. Thus at the
end of 1963 there were five sessional chiropodists working in the Area, carrying
out 12% sessions a week (81/ for elderly persons and 4- for children and expectant
mothers).

In addition, in March a chiropodist was appointed to carry out treatment for
elderly persons in their homes, where by reason of frailty or ill-health it was
inadvisable for them to attend a clinic.