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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 1916
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1916
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Work done br Voluntary Maternity and Infant Welfare Centres.
| Attendances. | Visits by Trained Visitor. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expectant Mothers. | Children. | Expectant Mothers. | Children | |||
| New cases. | Total attendances. | New cases. | Total attendances. | |||
| St. Pancras School for Mothers | 96 | 574 | 297 | 2608* | 1407 | |
| North St. Pancras School for Mothers:— | ||||||
| Rhyl Street Centre | 31 | 84 | 298 | 3796 | 2539 | |
| Winscombe Street Centre | — | — | 55 | 554 | 6 | 368 |
| Passmore Edwards Settlement School for Mothers | 8 | 28 | 587 | 62 | 287 | |
| Camden Town Mothers' and Infants' Welfare Centre | 17 | 22 | 89 | 763 | 4 | 119 |
| Argyle Square Mothers' and Infants' Welfare Centre | 35 | 72 | 172 | 1585 | 286 | 2800 |
| Maternity Nursing Association, ' 73, Oakley Square | 133 | 450 | 68 | 594 | 228 | 616 |
| University College Hospital | 1178 | — | — | |||
| Royal Free Hospital | 595 | 519 | ||||
* Exclusive of 2523 attendances in the day nursery.
The Four Boroughs Maternity Scheme have supplied the Medical Officer
for weekly pre-natal consultations at the North St. Pancras School for Mothers
(Rhyl Street) and the Argyle Square Centre.
About the end of 1916 a branch consultation in connection with the Argyle
Square Centre was opened at the Wesleyan Schoolroom, Falkland Road,
Kentish Town. It was decided also to open a second branch of the North
St. Pancras School for Mothers at the Public Baths, Prince of Wales' Road,
in rooms lent free by the Borough Council, but this was not begun until the
early part of 1917.
A satisfactory feature of the year was the development of the Infant
Consultation at University College Hospital. This institution, attending
more than a thousand St. Pancras births every year, has a magnificent
opportunity for a complete scheme of maternity and child welfare on a large
scale.
Lists of expectant mothers (from University College and Middlesex
Hospitals) and of recently notified births have been supplied from time to
time to certain of the centres, in order that visits might be paid to the homes