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Home Help's.
The St. tancras Home Helps Committee provides domestic assistance for families when
the mother is incapacitated through sickness or child-birth. The Borough Council makes an
annual grant to the Committee of £150 for use in respect of maternity cases only.
During the past year 70 cases were dealt with, 33 being sickness and 37 maternity
cases.
Midwives.
The supervising authority is the London County Council. According to figures
supplied by that authority the total number of midwives who in 1926 had notified their
intention to practise in St. Pancras was 31.
Private midwives are not subsidised by the Borough Council, but midwives on the
staff of certain hospitals and those employed by the Maternity Nursing Association arc paid
a subsidy for each approved necessitous case attended at the patient's home (see page 19).
Midwifery.
In the following tables the figures are given for 1926 relating to all St. Pancras
women who were attended in their confinements, either at home or as in-patients, by the staff
of various institutions situated either within or outside the Borough.

(or 37 per cent, of the total number of births).

(or 28 per cent, of the total number of births).
It will be seen from the above tables that there are a large number of institutions
available for midwifery for St. Pancras women, and that considerable use is made of them.