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St Pancras 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Home Nursing.—The work of the four local district nursing associations in this connection
(see page 76) includes the nursing of mothers and children. The home nursing of cases
of measles, whooping cough, ophthalmia neonatorum and infantile diarrhoea is referred to in
the Sections under those headings.
The Maternity Nursing Association undertakes "monthly nursing" as well as supplying
mid wives.
Midwifery.
The notifications of births in St. Pancras (1921) are classified below (in wards and registration sub-districts) according to the manner in which the mothers were attended in their confinements:—
| Births. | W. | S. | E. | N. | Total. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Attended in their own homes by— | |||||||||
| Private Doctors | 180 | 112 | 29 | 60 | 169 | 29 | 266 | 112 | 957 |
| Private Mid wivs | 189 | 16 | 14 | 49 | 120 | 4 | 275 | 302 | 969 |
| Doctors from the Elizabeth Garrett | 30 | 15 | 4 | 20 | 43 | 20 | 14 | 23 | 169 |
| Anderson Hospital | |||||||||
| Medical Students from— | |||||||||
| University College Hospital | 99 | 271 | 4 | 3 | 192 | 334 | 2 | 14 | 919 |
| Royal Free Hospital | 1 | 1 | - | 48 | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | 56 |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Midwives from— | |||||||||
| Middlesex Hospital | — | 26 | 60 | 3 | — | 7 | — | — | 96 |
| University College Hospital | 1 | 10 | 25 | 135 | 3 | 6 | — | - | 180 |
| Maternity Nursing Association, | — | — | — | 55 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 58 |
| Myddleton Square | |||||||||
| Maternity Nursing Association, Oakley Square Branch | 60 | 81 | 18 | 4 | 111 | 61 | 17 | 14 | 366 |
| Attended in Institutions— | |||||||||
| University College Hospital | — | — | 201 | — | — | — | — | — | 201 |
| Royal Free Hospital | — | — | — | 228 | — | — | — | — | 228 |
| Royal Free Hospital (Marlborough Maternity Section) | — | — | 651 | — | — | — | — | — | 651 |
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital | — | — | — | — | — | 38 | — | — | 38 |
| Lying-in Ward of St. Pancras House | - | - | - | - | - | 217 | - | - | 217 |
Certain of the notified births set out in the above table as having taken place in St.
Pancras institutions were of infants of mothers who were not St. Pancras residents. On the
other hand, a number of St. Pancras mothers were confined in institutions outside of the borough.
In the following tables the figures for 1921 are given for St. Pancras women only :—
" Extern " Midwifery.
*Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital (doctors) 169
University College Hospital (medical students) 919
„ „ „ (midwives) 180
Middlesex Hospital (midwives) 96
Royal Free Hospital (medical students) 56
St. Bartholomew's Hospital (medical students) 2
*Maternity Nursing Association, Oakley Square and Myddleton Square
(midwives) 424
1,846
(or 39 per cent. of the total number of births). ——
All the above-mentioned cases were treated gratuitously except those marked with an asterisk, in which
reduced fees were charged.