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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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December, 1920, the payment per intern case was increased from 10s. to £1. The amounts paid in respect of 1920 were as follows:—
| Royal Free Hospital and Marlborough Maternity Section | 108 | 15 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital | 60 | 5 | 0 |
| Maternity Nursing Association | 96 | 10 | 0 |
| Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital | 65 | 10 | 0 |
| City of London Maternity Hospital | 24 | 10 | 0 |
| £355 | 10 | 0 |
Government Grants.
Government Grants were made during the year ended March 31st, 1921, in respect of
| Maternity and Child Welfare as follows:— | £ | s. | d. |
| St. Pancras Borough Council | 7154 | 19 | 5 |
| St. Pancras School for Mothers (Ampthill Square) | 487 | 14 | 7 |
| „ „ (Chalton Street) | 58 | 0 | 0 |
| North St. Pancras School for Mothers (and branches) | 77 | 0 | 9 |
| *Mary Ward Settlement School for Mothers | 40 | 3 | 9 |
| Camden Town Mothers' and Infants' Welfare Centre | 93 | 14 | 5 |
| Centres at Argyle Square and Falkland Road | 244 | 1 | 10 |
| South High gate Mothers' and Infants' Welfare Centre | 24 | 10 | 0 |
| Maternity Nursing Association (for Infant Welfare Centre) | 30Є | 4 | 10 |
| *Maternity Nursing Association (for extern Midwifery and Maternity Nursing) | 750 | 0 | 0 |
| *University College Hospital (for extern Midwifery and Infant Welfare Centre) | 1857 | 0 | 1 |
| *Royal Free Hospital (for Extern Midwifery and Maternity Nursing) . . | 106 | 0 | 0 |
| „ „ (in respect of Marlborough Maternity Hospital) | 1856 | 0 | 0 |
| *City of London Maternity Hospital (for midwifery and Maternity Nursing) | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Pancras Dispensary (Infant Clinic) | 207 | 9 | 0 |
| St. Pancras Dental Clinic | 13 | 5 | 0 |
| Mayoress of St. Pancras Nursing Fund (Home Nursing) | 77 | 2 | 1 |
| Mayoress of St. Pancras Home for Sick Children | 581 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Pancras Home Helps Committee | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Pancras Day Nursery | 410 | 4 | 4 |
| Whitefield's Day Nursery | 326 | 9 | 2 |
| Kentish Town Day Nursery | 481 | 9 | 2 |
| Margaret Club and Day Nursery | 337 | 10 | 11 |
*Including expenditure on work amongst residents outside St. Pancras.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
18 patients were notified during 1920 to be suffering from puerperal fever, and in one
case the diagnosis was afterwards reversed. The number of actual cases notified was therefore
17, equal to an incidence rate of 2.9 per 1,000 births. 8 deaths occurred amongst
these, giving a case mortality of 47 per cent.
10 cases followed the birth of live-born infants, 5 the birth of a non-viable foetus,
and 2 the birth of a dead viable infant.