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The City of London Lying-in Hospital, City Road.
The Maternity Nursing Association, 63, Myddelton
Square.
The Royal Maternity Charity, 31, Finsbury Square.
The City of London Lying-in Hospital, founded in 1750, admits
and attends to married women, who produce their marriage
certificates and to single women in exceptional circumstances
after careful investigation for their first confinement.
In 1909, 863 women were delivered in this hospital, of whom
244 belonged to Finsbury.
The Maternity Nursing Association provides fully qualified
nurses, on payment of moderate fees, to attend married women
in their own homes during their confinements.
The Royal Maternity Charity provides midwives and medical
attendance for poor married women at home; it was founded in
1757, and has since then ministered to over half a million
mothers.
The students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal Free
Hospital attend mothers in St. Luke's and Clerkenwell, under
the supervision of qualified resident medical officers.
St. Bartholomew's owns a large amount of property in the
district.
During the year, classes for midwives and maternity nurses
were held by the London County Council at the Hugh Myddelton
School, Corporation Row.
With a view to preventing the many deaths that now happen
from cancer of the womb, the British Medical Association have
drafted a pamphlet on the stages and symptoms of early cases
of this disease.
This circular, at the request of the Association, was, in 1909,
distributed to nurses and midwives in the district who might be
brought into contact with cases in an early stage.