§ Mr. Leslie HaleI, too, Sir, have a Petition to present to this honourable House, signed by 11,416 of Her Majesty's loyal subjects, the overwhelming majority of whom live in the county borough of Oldham, the urban district of Chadderton and the urban district of Royton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, of which Her Majesty is Duke.
Briefly, the Petition calls attention to the loss which is felt by the people of that district by the loss of the services of a distinguished gynaecologist, the consultant medical officer at the Boundary Park Hospital, Mr. A. H. Barber, who has been there since 1937, and who, by the action of the Manchester Regional Hospital Board, has now ceased to have the right to give his great services under the National Health Service to the people of Oldham.
The Petition concludes with the Prayer that this distinguished man be reinstated. and concludes: 1164
Wherefore your petitioners in Oldham and district pray that you will reconsider the matter, and that they may have the services of a distinguished man whom they know and in whom they have faith, and your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.May I crave the leave of the House to say that my intention was to present this Petition with my colleagues the hon. Members for Oldham, East (Mr. Horobin) and Heywood and Royton (Sir H. Sutcliffe), whose constituents are also interested, but the Table has ruled that Petitions, like peace, are indivisible, and I therefore present it on their behalf.To lie upon the Table.