Eighty Jewish officials were discharged from the Vienna municipal government, and twenty-six Jewish doctors in the service of the city were also dismissed, the Prager Press, organ of Foreign Minister Edouard Benes, reported today in a dispatch from Vienna.
Dismissal of Jewish employees in the service of the municipality is continuing, the Prager Press reported, adding that Vienna officials have announced that Jewish women doctors will soon be ousted from posts in the schools’ clinics for detal diseases.
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