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St Pancras 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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81 cases were assisted in 1922, as follows:—
Maternity 52
Influenza 6
Consumption 1
Old age infirmity 1
Sickness connected with maternity 18
Other sickness 3
Three home helps were employed throughout the year, and temporary helps were
employed during 272 working days also.
Home Nursing.—The work of the four local district nursing associations in this connection
(see page 80) 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
midwives.
Midwifery.
The notifications of births in St. Pancras (1922) 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 | 111 | 86 | 25 | 67 | 137 | 29 | 243 | 93 | 791 |
| Private Midwives | 181 | 11 | 11 | 45 | 134 | 2 | 260 | 260 | 904 |
| Doctors from the Elizabeth Garrett | 21 | 11 | 2 | 25 | 50 | 10 | 16 | 39 | 174 |
| Anderson Hospital Medical Students from— | |||||||||
| University College Hospital | 109 | 265 | — | 5 | 194 | 324 | 3 | 21 | 921 |
| Royal Free Hospital | — | 1 | — | 30 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 33 |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | — | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | 5 |
| Midwives from— | |||||||||
| Middlesex Hospital | 1 | 22 | 56 | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 85 |
| University College Hospital | — | 1 | 31 | 126 | — | 2 | — | — | 160 |
| Maternity Nursing Association, | — | 1 | — | 56 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 59 |
| Myddleton Square | |||||||||
| Maternity Nursing Association, | 39 | 82 | 10 | 16 | 124 | 45 | 23 | 15 | 354 |
| Oakley Square Branch | |||||||||
| Attended in Institutions— | |||||||||
| University College Hospital | — | — | 208 | — | — | — | — | — | 208 |
| Royal Free Hospital | — | — | — | 282 | — | — | — | — | 282 |
| Royal Free Hospital (Marlborough Maternity Section) | — | — | 607 | - | — | — | — | — | 607 |
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital | — | — | - | - | — | 50 | — | — | 50 |
| 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
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