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other hand, a number of St. Pancras mothers were confined in institutions outside of the borough.
In the following tables the figures for 1922 are given for St. Pancras women only:—
"Extern" Midwifery.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital (doctors) 174
University College Hospital (medical students) 921
„ „ „ (midwives) 160
Middlesex Hospital (midwives) 85
Royal Free Hospital (medical students) 33
St. Bartholomew's Hospital (medical students) 5
Maternity Nursing Association, Oakley Square and Myddleton Square
(midwives) 413
1,791
(or 39 per cent. of the total number of births).
"Intern" Midwifery.
In St. Pancras:—
University College Hospital 118
Royal Free Hospital 47
Royal Free Hospital (Marlborough Maternity Section) 153
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital 16
St. Pancras House 155
Out of St. Pancras:—
Middlesex Hospital 150
Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital 135
City of London Maternity Hospital 54
St. Mary's Hospital, Hampstead 43
Other hospitals 35
906
(or 20 per cent. of the total number of births).
It will be seen from these tables that a very substantial amount of midwifery is available
for St. Pancras women from various voluntary agencies. The facilities for home midwifery
in much of the tenement house property are so bad, however, that an increased amount of
accommodation in the way of maternity homes or hospitals is desirable. In the northern
part of the borough the extern service from hospitals, &c., which is found in the south does
not exist.