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The whole of the area undertaken by the Central St. Pancras Association is included
within the Borough, and large portions of the areas of the other three Associations.
The Borough Council has an arrangement with all the above Associations for the Home
Nursing, at the request of the medical practitioner in attendance, of cases of Measles,
Whooping Cough, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Pemphigus Neonatorum, Infective Enteritis,
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
Arrangements are also in force with the Central St. Pancras and Metropolitan District
Associations for the home nursing of cases of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia. A
uniform fee of Is. 6d. per visit is paid by the Borough Council.

Home Helps.
This term is used to describe women who have received a certain amount of training
in domestic work, including the care of young children. They are provided for necessitous
families where the mother is incapacitated on account of sickness or child-birth.
The management is in the hands of a Voluntary Committee, on which the Council is
represented by two members.
An annual grant of £150 is made by the Borough Council for use in respect of
maternity cases only.
Two permanent "Helps" were employed throughout the greater part of the year, and
eight temporary "Helps" for emergency cases.
Fifty cases were dealt with during the year, 43 being maternity and 7 sickness cases.
The services rendered by the "Home Helps" are very valuable, and the work of the
Committee very efficient.
Midwives.
In the Metropolis, the supervising authority for midwives is the London County
Council. According to figures supplied by that authority, the number of midwives who, in
1928, had notified their intention to practise in St. Pancras was 32. Only 8 of this number
are engaged in private practice, the remainder are on the staff of various hospitals and
institutions in the Borough.
Private midwives are not subsidised by the Borough Council, but a subsidy is paid
for each approved necessitous case attended in the patient's home by midwives on the staff of
certain hospitals and by midwives employed by the Maternity Nursing Association.
The subsidy is not paid in cases where "Maternity benefit" is payable under the
National Health Insurance Act.