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Head of Kings County Hospital Suspended

February 10, 1928
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Dr. Mortimer D. Jones, medical superintendent of the Kings County Hospital, under whose administration anti-Jewish discrimination was practiced, was suspended by Bird S. Coler, Commissioner of Public Welfare, pending an explanation of charges of mismanagement which James A. Higgins, Commissioner of Accounts, made in his recent report to Mayor Walker.

The suspension was the climax of the charges made last summer that Jewish internes were discriminated against and had been hazed at the hospital. This led to a general investigation of conditions at the institution, conducted by Commissioner Higgins at the direction of the Mayor.

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