Extensive Survey Of Childrens Feet

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 6, 11 October 1948, Page 5

Extensive Survey Of Childrens Feet

On extensive survey with a view to designing the best possible shoes for New Zealand children’s feet is being carried: out, and the annual report of the Standards Council says food progress has been made with the measuring of the feet of 5,000 children representing a cross-sec-tion of the community. Notwithstanding interruptions due to the poliomyelitis < epidemic, measurements of the feet of two thousand eight hundred children had been taken at the close of the year under review. Also, during the -year, a preliminary analysis was made of some of the measurements then available in order to check the accuracy of the work and to arrive at some tentative conclusions before undertaking the maip analysis of the measurements when these are complete. Experimental lasts in three widths for one length of foot were made, and shoes manufactured on these lasts will be fitted to the corresponding feet in order to establish a reliable relationship between actual foot measurements and the last ments.This will facilitate the main examination of the measurements when the survey is completed and the interpretation of this data on a practical basis. < '