200 CHIROPODISTS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 93, 19 August 1942, Page 5

200 CHIROPODISTS

LOOKING AFTER BRITISH ARMY'S FEET V. Britain is taking special care in this Avar of the feet on which her troops will join in the march to victory. Corns, bunions, ingrowing toe-nails and other foot troubles, already much less prevalent than in. the last war owin<£ to mechanised transport, are now to be altogether banished. Already over 200 qualified chiropodists ranking as corporals have been appointed to military centres, and 40 women, with another GO on the way, have, been given similar appointments in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Special mobile units and chiropody ' travelling outfits are now in use to make sure that every man in the Armj r needing expert treatment gets it, however remote his station. The second of the mobile units to go into service is an adapted 10 ? cwt Ford van lilted with patient's chair, operating stool, trolley dressing table, eloctric nail drill and steriliser and a cabinet of medicaments, instruments and so on. The travelling outfits, twelve of which have already been made, are - for the 11.A.M.C. chiropodist cor--1 poral at military centres.. Equipped > with one the cases,' about the 1 size of a portable gramophone, he - can easily carry all his insvruments 3 medicaments and towels.,