Secondly, as MO Captain Basil Hughes, wrote to the BMJ from the front, ADD QUOTE HERE supporting the vitality of troops through healthy eating and rum rations. He advised it greatly lowered the number of men in each battalion that contracted foot conditions. MORE HERE MO King-Wilson supported this, stating ‘the rum and soup did wonders.’ Thirdly, MOs also performed regular foot inspections, and once again gave orders that all men had to attend. MORE INFO ON INSPECTIONS HERE — talk about MO Hughes’ ‘stages’ of trench foot When practised, these prevention methods often successfully lowered the severity of trench foot and frostbite, stopping the progression both at ‘Stage I’. FN
