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Committee, who were not satisfied that the proposals were in the best
interests of the two boroughs. The Committee reported to the Council
that, so far as Kensington was concerned, the Minister's plan did not
fulfil the proposed aim to place the most modern treatment at the
service of patients and enable the staffs who care for them to exercise
their skill and devotion under the best conditions. The Council
were particularly anxious that a District General Hospital should be
established at St. Mary Abbots Hospital in Marloes Road.
On 29th May, 1962, the Council resolved to send a deputation
to the Minister of Health, who replied stating that the planning
of the local hospital services was a matter for the South West Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Board. He asked the Council to discuss
their views with the Board in the first instance.
The Regional Hospital Board received a deputation from the
Council on 12th December, 1962, when the Board's representatives
agreed to issue a statement on their proposals for the area. The
Chairman of the Board stated that it was hoped to keep St. Mary
Abbots Hospital as a General Hospital, in conjunction with St.
Stephen's Hospital.
The development of the Hospital Plan is being kept under
constant review to ensure that the interests of Kensington inhabitants
are fully protected.
CENSUS. 1961
The Registrar-General has published a Census report on
the County of London in respect of the population enumerated as at
midnight, 23rd/24th April, 1961. The census population comprises
those residents of the area who were at home, but not those who
were away on census night, whether of British or non-British
nationality. Visitors from other areas in the United Kingdom and
also from abroad (including members of the Armed Forces of the
Commonwealth or foreign countries, except those aboard foreign
naval vessels) are included. Persons enumerated aboard vessels
which on census night were at moorings or anchorage in England and
Wales, or were engaged in coastwise or fishing voyages, have been
included and classified, with as much accuracy as the information
furnished allows, to the appropriate local areas of their anchorage
or mooring, or, if actually in transit on census night, to their
next port or place of call. Persons travelling during the night
or who were otherwise inaccessible were counted as part of the
population of the area where they arrived the next day, unless
they had been previously enumerated.
The population enumerated as described above excludes,
in particular, members of the Armed Forces and Mercantile Marine
outside England and Wales, and in this respect omits a number of
persons who might otherwise have been in the area.
The Registrar-General gives the population for the
borough and the various wards as set out in the following table:-