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Home Helps.—The St. Pancras Home Helps Committee provides domestic assistance
for families when the mother is laid aside through sickness or child-birth. The Council
make the Committee a grant of £150 per annum in respect of maternity cases.
85 cases were assisted in 1923, as follows:—
Maternity 40
Influenza 2
Consumption 6
Old age infirmity 1
Sickness connected with maternity 29
Other illness 7
Three home helps were employed throughout the year, and temporary helps were
employed during 419¾ working days also.
In the majority of cases very little can be contributed towards the cost of this work by
the mothers who are helped, as the illness itself diminishes the resources of the home. The
subsidy of the Council is only available in connection with Maternity cases, and for all other
illnesses funds must be obtained from voluntary sources. This useful and most practical work
is very deserving of encouragement and support.
Home Nursing.
As regards district nursing, the Borough comprises the whole of the district of the
Central St. Pancras District Nursing Association, and large portions of the districts of the
Metropolitan Nursing Association, the Hampstead District Nursing Association, and the
North London Nursing Association. The associations were paid by the Council a fee of 1s. 6d.
per visit for the nursing of cases of measles, whooping cough, ophthalmia neonatorum,
infantile diarrhoea, influenza and pneumonia; but the bulk of their work is supported by
voluntary funds. The home nursing is of very great public health importance, and the need
for its extension and support from public funds is very great. The home nursing work done
during 1923 in St. Pancras is indicated by the following: figures:—
No. of cases
nursed.
No. of home
visits paid.
Central St. Pancras District Nursing Association 74 1,219
Metropolitan Nursing Association (St. Pancras cases) 29 693
Haspstead District Nursing Association (St. Pancras
cases) 21 428
North London Nursing Association (St. Pancras cases) 18 264