. A manual on foot care and shoe fitting for officers of the Navy and Marine corps. ands at the doorleading from the waiting room to the measuring room; andas each man passes the recorder a printed Deformity andRecording Slip is made out. The recorder writes the mansname, age, organization, date, time in service and record ofpresent size of shoe. (See facsimile of slip.) The orderlyclosely observes the number of men in the measuring room andprevents overcrowding of the same by only calling a man fromthe waiting room when he sees one step from the measuringtable to the fitting room. E


. A manual on foot care and shoe fitting for officers of the Navy and Marine corps. ands at the doorleading from the waiting room to the measuring room; andas each man passes the recorder a printed Deformity andRecording Slip is made out. The recorder writes the mansname, age, organization, date, time in service and record ofpresent size of shoe. (See facsimile of slip.) The orderlyclosely observes the number of men in the measuring room andprevents overcrowding of the same by only calling a man fromthe waiting room when he sees one step from the measuringtable to the fitting room. Entering the measuring room the table is mounted by theperson to be measured and the slip handed to the are noted and recorded if it is a first measurement;and each foot being accurately measured, as before described,the measurements as made are noted on the slip under theheading of Estimated Size of Shoe. The slip is returnedto the man and he passes on into the fitting room. Hereagain a check is maintained to prevent overcrowding in th^ GENERAL PROCEDURE 01 TITTING 99. > a sa lOO FOOT CARE AND SHOE PITTING person of the shoe overseer who allows only the. number ofmen to enter the fitting room equal to the number that passesout. Entering the fitting room the slip is given to one of thestockmen who notes the Estimated Size of Shoe and pro-cures from the rack a corresponding size of shoes containingin the shoe cavities the Resco Marine Corps Shoe FittingDevices. The slip is returned to the man by the stockman. The fitting platform is then mounted, and facing the fitterthe slip is handed to the latter who notes the size suppHed aridexamines the width of the shoe. The company officer standsbeside the fitter to see that all his men are fitted is then practised on the testing incline to reveal anydeficiencies in length. If the test is satisfactory and the sizecorrect the fitter retains the slip and records the size as theFitted Size. The


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