More Jewish Doctors Allowed to Practice in Vienna to Replace Emigrants

More Jewish doctors have lately admitted to practice in Vienna, according to a report in The Lancet, the British medical journal.

”Most persons of Jewish nationality practicing in the Austrian countries,” The Lancet states, ”have lost their right to practice, except a limited number required for the remaining Jewish population. Lately however it has been found necessary to admit another batch of practitioners of this kind, since most of those admitted in October, 1938, have been forced to emigrate. Now again we are informed that a number of former general practitioners have been allowed to renew their professional activities. They are mostly men well above 60 years for age, for nearly all the younger ones are now out of the country trying to find a living somehow somewhere. While last year only those doctors who have seen active service in the World War were eligible for consideration, now hardly any differentiation is taking place. In the only Jewish hospital there is a constant fluctuation among the chiefs of the departments. Nearly all the prominent men, also numerous trained assistants and nurses, have left the country already, so that those now in office are overworked and the quality is not what it was a year ago. As a result of the constant emigration, the bulk of the Jewish population of Vienna– about 100,000 persons now, 50 per cent of what it used to be–are elderly people aged between 50 and 100. Children and young adults are rarely seen nowadays and old and ailing paupers are all that is left for the newly admitted doctors to make a living form.”