A Government Committee of Enquiry
PEDESTROS LIMITED
"NEW DESOUTTER" LIGHT METAL 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."
"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."
The wonderful advantage of the New DesoutterLight 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
BRITISH LEGION IMPERIAL First and Second in above-knee class.
SPORTS RALLY. i First in below-knee class.
STAR WALK.First in above-knee class, 1922; First and Second, 1923.
DISABLED SOCIETY'S SPORTS, 1923.—First, Second and Third.
GRANTHAM SPORTS, 1923.—First, Second and Third.
10, Conduit Street, Regent Street, London, W.l
Branches atRoehampton, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow,
Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Grantham, Bath, Brighton, Southampton, and Dublin.
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.
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 Committee
of Enquiry was as follows
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the heavy or out-of-date wooden limb.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 may now be supplied to all ranks, and all officers and men
desiring these legs should apply at any limb-fitting centre in Great Britain or Ireland.
Wonderful records made on this amazing limb include the following LONDON TO BRIGHTON,
52 miles, in 15 hours, 21 mins., by Mr. V. F. BELL, who beat his own record made on another make[of
metal limb by 4Jr hours.
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