SIR,-1 should like to calls on the column run
by a gentleman who calls himself Strix in the May 17 issue of your most excellent journal. In his fourth paragraph this gentleman has some remarks to make regarding the 'fitting of *shoes to Somerset children.
I wonder, Sir, if he really means to call this an .. 'inane inquiry.' Does not the fact that approximately , 400 children were not present when their shoes were bought appal him as it does me? Surely if Strix is a parent he would not dream of buying a pair of shoes for a child of his without that child being present at the time; or would he buy a pair for a child just men- tioning either the age or the size of school cap! Make no mistake, this does definitely occur--I have been in'a shoe shop and personally witnessed it.
What has aroused my interest is, the fact that 95 per cent. of my patients need never have had. treatment at all but for carelessness regarding shoes when they were young.
No, Sir, I cannot agree with Strix's calling this an 'inane inquiry' or his using it as an example to suit himself. In fact, it is a very tragic statement that I and my colleagues are trying hard by practice and teaching to put right.—Yours faithfully,
GORDON S. SEYNER
192 Chiswick High Road, W4
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