§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterI beg to present a Petition signed by 40,780 of His Majesty's loyal subjects resident in the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames and in the Borough of Malden and Coombe. The effect of the recitals of the Petition is that the South-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board have not attempted to maintain as part of the National Health Service a hospital at which general practitioners can attend and treat patients.
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The Prayer of the Petition reads:
Wherefore your Petitioners pray that this retrograde step in the development of the National Health Service should be remedied by general practitioner hospitals, such as the Kingston and Malden Victoria Hospital, being established as an essential factor in the Service, for which your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ Petition to lie upon the Table.