A Government Committee of Enquiry
"NEW DESOUTTER" LIGHT METAL LEG
PEDESTROS LIMITED,
10, CONDUIT STREET, REGENT STREET, LONDON, W. 1.
AND THE
On July 5th, 1921, His Majesty's Minister of Pensions appointed a Committee of Enquiry on
Artificial Limbs to consider, inter alia, the comparative advantages of the Metal leg and the wooden
leg.
This Committee, in its Report, refers to the fact that the Desoutter metal limbs, owing to
their high cost and the difficulty of supplying in quantity, were only supplied in exceptional and
rare instances."
After holding ten meetings and hearing the evidence of Surgeons, Limbless Officers and Men, the
Minister's Technical Advisers, Limb-makers and other experts, the first recommendation of the Com
mittee of Enquiry was as follows
"The 'Desoutter,' and/or other approved light metal limbs, should be
"placed upon the Consolidated List, and should be made available for all
new cases in which the surgeon recommends them on surgical or other
"grounds instead of the standard pattern wooden leg."
Every limbless ex-Service man should read the Report of this Government Committee of Enquiry.
Its references to the Desoutter leg are sufficient indication of the Committee's considered opinion
of the merits of the "New Desoutter" Light Metal Leg, in comparison with what the Committee
terms the heavy or out-of-date wooden limb.
The New Desoutter light metal leg can now be supplied, and all officers and men desiring these
legs will be able to obtain them at any limb-fitting centre in Great Britain or Ireland.
The wonderful advantage of the "New Desoutter" Light Metal Leg was bound, ultimately,
to more than justify the extra initial expense involved in its supply to disabled men, and
the decision of the Ministry of Pensions now to grant this limb, notwithstanding its high cost, is the
natural outcome of its outstanding advantages over the present heavy and cumbersome wooden limb.
By arrangement with Messrs. Desoutter Bros., Ltd., Pedestros, Limited, the well-known artificial
limb fitters, have been appointed the sole licensees and fitting agents for the supply of the New
Desoutter light metal leg at all Ministry of Pensions limb-fitting centres in Great Britain and Ireland.
Full information and copies of the Report of the Committee of Enquiry will be sent on request.
BRANCHES AT
HOEBAMPTON, LIVEBPOOL, MANCHESTER, LEEDS, NEWCASTLE, GLASGOW,
EDINBURGH (FOR ABERDEEN), GRANTHAM, BATH, BRIGHTON, SOUTHAMPTON,
DUBLIN, BELFAST, AND SYDNEY, N.S.W.
Sole Licensees and Fitting Agents for the "New Desoutter Light Metal Leg,
