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"Voluntary Matermity and Infant Welfare Work.
"Extern" Midwifery.—The number of St. Pancras mothers attended
gratuitously at their confinements in their own homes during 1915, according
to the birth notification returns, was as follows:—
* New Hospital for Women (doctors) 146
University College Hospital (medical students) 979
Do. do. (midwives) 186
Middlesex Hospital (medical students) 127
Royal Free Hospital (medical students) 57
St. Bartholomew's Hospital (medical students) 7
* Maternity Nursing Association, Myddleton Square
and Oakley Square (midwives) 123
1625
(or one-third of the total number of births).
(* In some of these cases the women were charged reduced fees).
Grants in aid of extern midwifery work were made by the Local Government
Board for the financial year 1915-16 to University College Hospital
(£380 10s. 0d.) and the Maternity Nursing Association (£116).
"Intern" Midwifery.—The number of St. Pancras births which took place
in lying-in and general hospitals and in the St. Pancras House—formerly
the Workhouse—were as follows:—
University College Hospital 99
Middlesex Hospital 127
Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital 175
City of London „ „ 110
Other Hospitals 29
St. Pancras House 62
602
(or one-eighth of the total number of births).
Infants' Clinic.—A special clinic for sick infants and children under school
age has been held during the year at the St. Pancras Dispensary, 39, Oakley
Square. Such infants are referred to the clinic from the various infant welfare
centres and other sources. During 1915, 398 new cases, under 5 years of age,
were treated at the dispensary, of which 65 were treated by the dispensary
doctor in their own homes. The total number of attendances of these
children was 1003, and the total number of home visits 184. A grant of £50
was made by the Local Government Board to the dispensary in respect of the
clinic for the financial year 1915-16. The dispensary also attended 35 women
for illness associated with pregnancy or the puerperum. Provision was made
by the dispensary also, through the Maternity Nursing Association, for 24
ordinary midwifery cases (extern).