'A Shanghai volunteer in a recent letter stated that he was wearing two pairs of socks at the same time asa precaution against the painful malady known as trench foot. The War Office issued an order that two pairs of socks were always to ye worn in the trenches and that the new regulation boots served out must be sufficiently large to fit easily. Another Shanghai volunteer has made some rather caustic reman bout these same boots, but medical opinion is nevertheless *Lancet" says:— subject the
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