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The Council subsidises the provision of midwifery for necessitous St. Pancras
residents by paying a grant to institutions which attend these cases, either free or at a
reduced charge. The grants are at the rate of 5s. for each approved case attended at the
patient's own home, and £1 for each approved case admitted into the institution concerned.
Lists of the cases to be attended are supplied by the various institutions. Each
case is investigated by the staff of the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre in whose area the
patient resides. Attendance at the ante-natal clinic can thus in suitable cases be advised, and
after the confinement the mother is urged to bring the baby to the Infant Consultations.
The following table gives particulars of the amounts paid to the various institutions for
attending necessitous St. Pancras cases during 1924: —
Grants for Midwifery Attendance (Necessitous Cases).
£ s. d.
Royal Free Hospital and Marlborough Maternity Section 73 5 0
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital 47 15 0
Maternity Nursing Association 31 10 0
Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital 85 0 0
City of London Maternity Hospital 34 0 0
Middlesex Hospital 140 15 0
£412 5 0
The corresponding grants for the two previous years were £705 and £713 5s. od.
The considerable reduction for 1924 is due to the investigation now made, which
excludes cases not necessitous, or which are not residents of the Borough.
Government Grants.
Government Grants were made during the year ended March 31st, 1925, in respect of
Maternity and Child Welfare, as follows:— £ s. d.
St. Pancras Borough Council 6684 13 9
St. Pancras School for Mothers (Ampthill Square) 653 18 9
„ „ (Chalton Street) 158 8 8
North St. Pancras School for Mothers 90 12 2
Grafton Road Mothers’ and Infants’ Welfare Centre 44 17 5
* Mary Ward Settlement School for Mothers 13 14 9
Camden Town Mothers’ and Infants’ Welfare Centre 72 5 2
Argyle Square Mothers’ and Infants’ Welfare Centre 40 14 2
Caversham Road Mothers’ and Infants’ Welfare Centre 234 6 11
South Highgate Mothers’ and Infants’ Welfare Centre 45 6 3
Maternity Nursing Association (for Maternity and Child Welfare
Centre) 56 2 11
* Maternity Nursing Association (for extern Midwifery and Maternity
Nursing) 607 0 0
* University College Hospital (for Maternity and Child Welfare) 861 8 7
„ ,, (for Midwifery and Nursing) 212 10 0
* Royal Free Hospital (for extern Midwifery and Maternity Nursing) 94 10 0
„ ,, (for Maternity and Child Welfare Centre) 245 10 0
„ ,, (in respect of the Marlborough Maternity Section) 1163 9 7
St. Pancras Dispensary (Infant Clinic) 254 0 0
Mayoress of St. Pancras Home for Sick Children 483 13 11
Whitefield Day Nursery 404 5 11
Kentish Town Day Nursery 368 15 4
Margaret Club and Day Nursery 342 12 10
*ncluding expenditure on work amongst residents outside St. Pancras.